Exam 7: Search and Seizure Without a Warrant

An officer wishes to perform a search on a backyard of a house. The officer enters into the backyard without a warrant and performs the search. The search was legal and constitutional.

A private individual acting upon his or her own authority is not bound by Fourth Amendment considerations when performing a search.

if a person leaves an article in another's home or in another's care, the person who has custody of such article may consent to the search of that article.

An individual consents to a search of a vehicle. The individual states that the officer can search only the trunk. The officer can then legally search the _____________.

An officer can perform a search incident to an arrest for any crime no matter how serious or trivial.

A backyard adjacent to a house is an example of an open field.

Terry v. Ohio provided the rationale that led to the practice of __________________.

An officer arrests an offender. The officer can search the _____________.

An officer need not "know" that certain items are contraband or incident to the crime before a seizure is justified under the plain view approach.

A(n) ______________ is an area that is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. This property is not a house or curtilage.

Warrantless searches of motor vehicles are governed by standard of _____________.

A(n) __________________ is an exception to the rule that searches without a warrant are per se unreasonable.

No other individual can give consent for a search except for the person who owns a property.

A firearms dealer, gun store, or liquor store is an example of a _______________.

In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that the temporary detention of a vehicle for a traffic violation is not unreasonable, even if a reasonable officer would not have stopped the vehicle without more?

An officer lawfully arrests a driver of a car. The officer searches the driver's person as well as the area immediately within reach of the driver of the car. This search was not legal or constitutional.

A(n) _______________ is the voluntary consent of an individual to forgo his or her constitutional rights in a specific circumstance.

An officer performs a traffic stop. As she approaches the vehicle, she notices an illegal handgun sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle. The officer seizes the evidence. This evidence was __________________.

An officer cannot automatically search a vehicle when performing a traffic stop.

An officer stops a vehicle to issue a citation. That officer can institute a search _____________.