Exam 7: Searches and Seizures of Things

The need for prison and jail security permits searches without probable cause or a warrant of: I. prisoners. II. pretrial detainees. III. employees of the prison. IV. visitors to the prison.

According to State v. Ellis, searches of college dormitory rooms:

According to the court in State v. Ellis, involving a search of a dormitory room at a public university, administrators may never enter students' rooms for any purpose without probable cause.

In Samson v. California (2006), the Supreme Court ruled that:

Which of the following elements do the variety of special needs searches have in common? I. They are directed primarily at citizens generally, not those suspected of crime. II. Although they have a regulatory purpose they can result in criminal prosecution. III. Their reasonableness depends on balancing special government needs beyond law enforcement and privacy. IV. They require probable cause to be reasonable.

Identify the special need for searches of prisoners and prisoners' expectation of privacy.

In regard to school searches, the Supreme Court has declared:

In National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab, involving the employee drug testing program in the U.S. Customs Service, Justice Scalia dissented in part because he:

With regard to border searches, the U.S. Supreme Court has found that:

Historically, before the second half of the Twentieth Century, U.S. prisoners:

The special need used to justify employee drug testing is directed mainly at:

The Supreme Court has not addressed the extent to which the Fourth Amendment protects university students in their dorm rooms.

DNA testing of incarcerated felons:

Which of the following has the Supreme Court identified as legitimate purposes for inventory searches? I. protection of owners' property while in police custody II. to protect police from law suits III. to protect detained suspects from danger IV. for criminal investigation purposes

To do a body cavity search at an international border, which of the below is needed?

Why are inventory searches reasonable even without warrants or probable cause, identify the special needs satisfied by inventory searches, and what substitutes for probable cause as the objective basis for inventory searches?

The Supreme Court in Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001), involving state hospital obstetric patients who were pregnant and arrested for child abuse after testing positive for cocaine, decided that:

The objective standard necessary to justify a strip search at the border is _____________.

The safety and security of travelers are the special needs that justify ___________.

The border search exception does not allow the warrantless opening of mail coming into the country.