Exam 7: Searches and Seizures of Things

Identify four characteristics all special-needs searches have in common.

Concerning student searches conducted by public school officials, the Supreme Court has held: I. the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to searches conducted by school officials. II. children, while in school, possess a reasonable expectation of privacy. III. school officials are exempt from the Fourth Amendment. IV. school officials are held to the requirement that searches be based on Probable cause.

Searches that consist of compiling lists of property in government custody are ______________ searches.

Regarding probationers and parolees:

In order to meet constitutional standards, an inventory search:

Why don't searches of probationers and parolees require warrants or probable cause to be reasonable?

With regard to the factual foundation required to support border searches: I. reasonable suspicion supports a strip search. II. no warrant, probable cause, or reasonable suspicion is required for a Routine border search. III. probable cause is required for body cavity searches. IV. none of the above

Searches of persons and property at the border of the United States to control who and what comes in and goes out are know as _______________ searches.

Criminal law enforcement is not the purpose of employee drug testing.

The special need justifying routine border searches is the right to control who and what comes in and leaves the country.

The right against unreasonable searches and seizures is limited to criminal suspects.

The Fourth Amendment law concerning parolees and probationers: I. permits the arrest of parolees and probationers without a warrant or probable cause. II. permits the search of a parolee's or probationer's car without a warrant or probable cause. III. permits the search of parolees and probationers without a warrant or probable cause. IV. permits the search of a probationer's or parolee's home without a warrant or probable cause.

Body cavity searches at the border are reasonable only if authorities have ____________.

Special-needs searches can never result in prosecution and conviction.

Probationers and parolees have diminished Fourth Amendment rights.

Government inspections and other searches not conducted to gather criminal evidence are known as searches.

With regard to prisoners, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that: I. they are subject to full body searches without probable cause following contact with visitors. II. their Fourth Amendment rights are diminished. III. their Fourth Amendment rights remain totally intact. IV. they are protected from prison shakedowns.

The border search exception allows searches at international borders without warrants or probable cause.

Jail detainees, not yet convicted of a crime:

The objective basis for inventory searches consists of following routine procedures in compiling the inventory.