Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: Prior to being charged, the fourth amendment provides essentially the sole constitutional buffer between the citizen and arbitrary searches or seizures. The criminal defendant by contrast enjoys rights under the sixth amendment t] counsel. compulsory process, to confront witnesses against him, to he notified of the nature the charges and speedy and fair jury trial. CONST Amend. VI. "Every procedural safeguard [contained in the Bill of Rights] made it more difficult for the Government to convict those accused of crimes. Green United States, 356 U.S. 165 216 (1958) Black dissenting) These expansive procedural safeguards support the no tion that the fourth amendment's silence with respect T the filing of charges was not an oversight. To the con- trary the fourth amendment provides check again ...