Exam 4: The Exclusionary Rule

The Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule does not apply to the activities of private citizens acting totally on their own.

The inevitable discovery,silver platter,and "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrines are all currently exceptions to the exclusionary rule.

The exclusionary rule may only be invoked by the defendant in the initial stages of criminal justice proceedings.

One alternative to the exclusionary rule is to sue the government and the officers in a civil _________action.

In United States v.Leon,468 U.S.897 (1984),the Court said that the exclusionary rule is a "______________ created remedy designed to safeguard Fourth Amendment rights."

The exclusionary rule results in freeing guilty persons in only a relatively small proportion of cases.

The federal exclusionary rule may be triggered by violation of which of the following?

Which is applicable when a defendant's voluntary act after illegal police conduct breaks the causal chain between the police misconduct and the evidence?

The exclusionary rule applies to grand jury investigations and post-conviction sentencing.

In both federal and state courts,the basic procedure for excluding evidence on a claim of illegal search and seizure is__________a pretrial motion to the evidence.

The exclusionary rule has been _________by Court decisions,but it is here to stay.

There are_________ "general" exceptions to the exclusionary rule.

The four categories of exceptions to the exclusionary rule are good faith,inevitable discovery,purged taint,and independent source.

There are limitations to what prisoners can claim under habeas corpus

Give three arguments in favor of the exclusionary rule as it currently stands,and three arguments against it.Then explain your position on the issue,supporting it with logical examples.

If Officer White did not have the pictures,but just information from several informants,but he told the magistrate that he had seen the boxes,the exclusionary rule

The rule that even evidence that is obtained as an indirect result of police misconduct is inadmissible is called the:

The exclusionary rule means that evidence illegally seized by state or federal officers cannot be used in:

Which of the following is an argument against the exclusionary rule?

The exclusionary rule does not require suppression of evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment where the erroneous information resulted from clerical errors of court employees.