Deck 7: The Rule of Law in Law Enforcementcriminal Justice Under the Constitutionfederal Criminal

Question 1

The 1897 case of Bram v. United States dealt with the issue of _____________.

A) the right to own a gun
B) the death penalty
C) voluntariness of a confession
D) search of a barn
E) the right to an attorney

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Supreme Court in ___________________ determined that the use of a thermal imaging device was unconstitutional.

A) Kyllo v. United States
B) Mapp v. Ohio
C) Weeks v. United States
D) Bram v. United States
E) Gitlow v. New York

Answer 2

A

Question 3

When the police have a suspicion (short of probable cause) that a person has been or may be engaged in the commission of a crime it is referred to as _________.

A) probable cause
B) guilty suspicion
C) reasonable suspicion
D) common sense

Answer 3

C

Question 4

No warrant is needed to conduct a search when the fruits or instrumentalities of a crime are in plain view. This is called the ___________ doctrine.

A) sight
B) see and retrieve
C) plain view
D) open search

Question 5

A written order from a court directing the police to effect an arrest is called a(an) ______.

A) seizure warrant
B) seizure writ
C) arrest warrant
D) custody warrant

Question 6

According to the Fourteenth Amendment, a fundamental mandate that a person should not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without reasonable and lawful procedures is called ___________.

A) the fairness doctrine
B) due process of law
C) the Bill of Rights
D) the Rights of Man

Question 7

A _________ is a legal document issued by a neutral and detached magistrate or judicial officer describing the person or place to be searched.

A) warrant
B) writ
C) search permission slip
D) directive

Question 8

Danny Kyllo was charged with _____________.

A) murder
B) possession of cocaine
C) growing marijuana
D) possession of illegal weapons

Question 9

The doctrine of selective incorporation was established in ______________.

A) Kyllo v. United States
B) Mapp v. Ohio
C) Weeks v. United States
D) Palko v. Connecticut
E) Gitlow v. New York

Question 10

When an officer is pursuing a suspect on foot or in a vehicle he may search and seize that person under the principle of ______________.

A) plain view
B) consent search
C) preventive detention
D) hot pursuit

Question 11

A set of facts that would lead a reasonable person to believe that an accused person committed the offense in question is called ______________.

A) probable cause
B) guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
C) substantial intuition
D) reasonable suspicion

Question 12

Any governmental intrusion upon a person's reasonable exception of privacy is called a _________.

A) search
B) seizure
C) entrapment
D) illegal intrusion

Question 13

Patting down a suspect's clothing to search for concealed weapons, under reasonable suspicion, is called ____________.

A) a safety search
B) a weapons search
C) a body search
D) a frisk

Question 14

Technique used by police to "pat down" a person suspected of being armed or in possession of the instrumentalities of a crime.

A) stop and search
B) strip and find
C) pat and feel
D) stop and frisk

Question 15

Chief Justice Earl Warren served during the period from __________________.

A) 1929 to 1945
B) 1953 to 1969
C) 1965 to 1975
D) 1902 to 1918
E) none of these

Question 16

A police officer may search during certain emergencies that call for immediate action and therefore do not allow time for a search warrant to be obtained. These situations are called ____________.

A) exigent circumstances
B) stressful searches
C) necessary searches
D) immediate suspicion

Question 17

The exercise of control by a government official over a person or thing is called a _______.

A) search
B) seizure
C) confinement
D) invasion of privacy

Question 18

A warrantless search conducted when the party to the search provides "voluntary and intelligent consent" to police is called a _____________.

A) plain view
B) consent search
C) permission search
D) approval search

Question 19

An (a) ____________ is the act of taking a person into custody by restricting that person's right to leave.

A) intervention
B) arrest
C) frisk
D) holding

Question 20

The Supreme Court's practice of incorporating the Bill of Rights selectively, by identifying federal rights that are "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty" and applying them to states through the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause is called _______.

A) one at a time
B) due process of law
C) the Living Constitution
D) selective incorporation

Question 21

The Supreme Court in ___________________ determined that the use of a thermal imaging device was unconstitutional.

Question 22

The 1897 case of Bram v. United States dealt with the issue of _____________.

Question 23

The explicit questioning or actions by a police officer of a suspect that may elicit an incriminating statement is called ____________.

A) interrogation
B) interview
C) questioning
D) conversation
E) all of the above

Question 24

The case that gave a suspect the "right to remain silent" is _____________.

A) Mapp v. Ohio
B) Terry v. Ohio
C) Weeks v. U.S.
D) Miranda v. Arizona
E) Dickerson v. United States

Question 25

According to the Fourteenth Amendment, a fundamental mandate that a person should not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without reasonable and lawful procedures is called ___________.

Question 26

What suspect was handcuffed, stripped naked below the waist, and sodomized with a broomstick while in police custody in New York City?

A) Rodney King
B) Amadou Diallo
C) Joe Morgan
D) Abner Louima

Question 27

In the case of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, who was shot at 41 times, with at least 19 shots hitting the suspect and killing him, the police ______________.

A) were found guilty of murder in the first degree
B) were found guilty of murder in the second degree
C) were found guilty of manslaughter
D) were acquitted of all charges

Question 28

The Supreme Court's practice of incorporating the Bill of Rights selectively, by identifying federal rights that are "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty" and applying them to states through the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause is called _______.

Question 29

Ms. Mapp was convicted of the crime of _____________.

A) murder
B) drug sales
C) robbery
D) possession of obscene publications

Question 30

The case that extended the exclusionary to the states was ___________.

A) Weeks v. U.S.
B) Miranda v. Arizona
C) Mapp v. Ohio
D) Terry v. Ohio
E) Savage v. Michigan

Question 31

For the Miranda warning to apply the suspect _________________.

A) simply needs to be taken into custody
B) simply needs to be questioned
C) both of these
D) neither of these

Question 32

According to civil libertarians, the Patriot Act _______________.

A) undermines existing checks on law enforcement and threatens cherished rights and freedoms
B) has reduced terrorism 25%
C) has eliminated terrorism from the United States
D) has resulted in the apprehension of Osama bin Laden

Question 33

The case of Dickerson v. United States dealt with the issue of _______________.

A) search of an automobile
B) whether the federal congress can overrule the Supreme Court
C) does a person have the right to remain silent
D) can a person's home be searched without a warrant

Question 34

Evidence that is obtained through the use of other illegally obtained evidence is called __________.

A) dirty evidence
B) unreliable evidence
C) "fruit of the poisonous tree"
D) "good faith exception"
E) indirect evidence

Question 35

The case of United States v. Montoya de Hernandez dealt with the issue of ________.

A) the search of an automobile
B) alimentary canal smuggling
C) the search of an airplane
D) the search of her hotel room

Question 36

Which Amendment protects a person from being "compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself?"

A) First
B) Second
C) Fourth
D) Fifth
E) Sixth

Question 37

The case of Tennesse v. Garner dealt with the issue of ______________.

A) deadly force
B) the right to remain silent
C) the right to an attorney
D) the right to bail
E) the right to a jury

Question 38

The rule that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence being used in a court of law is called ___________.

A) "bad faith" rule
B) exclusionary rule
C) elimination rule
D) exception rule

Question 39

The doctrine of selective incorporation was established in ______________.

Question 40

The case of Mapp v. Ohio dealt with the issue of _______________.

A) search and seizure
B) the right to remain silent
C) the right to an attorney
D) the right to bail
E) the right to a jury

Question 41

An (a) ____________ is the act of taking a person into custody by restricting that person's right to leave.

Question 42

The Supreme Court has said that a man's home is his castle, so too is his automobile. You are protected against searchers and seizures in your car in the same manner and extend as you are in your home.

Question 43

A warrantless search conducted when the party to the search provides "voluntary and intelligent consent" to police is called a _____________.

Question 44

When an officer is pursuing a suspect on foot or in a vehicle he may search and seize that person under the principle of ______________.

Question 45

The case that gave a suspect the "right to remain silent" is _____________.

Question 46

The case of United States v. Montoya de Hernandez dealt with the issue of ________.

Question 47

Chief Justice Earl Warren was appointed in ___________.

Question 48

Patting down a suspect's clothing to search for concealed weapons, under reasonable suspicion is called ____________.

Question 49

No warrant is needed to conduct a search when the fruits or instrumentalities of a crime are in plain view. This is called the ___________ doctrine.

Question 50

Fourth Amendment rights are severely restricted at international borders or their "functional equivalent," such as international airports.

Question 51

When the police have a suspicion (short of probable cause) that a person has been or may be engaged in the commission of a crime it is referred to as _________.

Question 52

Searches at borders require "probable cause" or a search warrant for the search to be constitutional.

Question 53

For the Miranda warning to apply the suspect _________________.

Question 54

The exercise of control by a government official over a person or thing is called a _______.

Question 55

There is no need for a police officer to secure a warrant for a search incident to an arrest.

Question 56

A set of facts that would lead a reasonable person to believe that an accused person committed the offense in question is called ______________.

Question 57

A written order from a court directing the police to effect an arrest is called an ______.

Question 58

No warrant is needed to conduct a search when the fruits or instrumentalities of a crime are in plain view.

Question 59

A _________ is a legal document issued by a neutral and detached magistrate or judicial officer describing the person or place to be searched.

Question 60

A technique used by police to " pat down " a person suspected of being armed or in possession of the instrumentalities of a crime is called _________.

Question 61

The rule that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence being used in a court of law is called the exclusionary rule.

Question 62

Abner Louima was handcuffed, stripped naked below the waist, and sodomized with a broomstick while in police custody in New York City?

Question 63

Evidence that is obtained through the use of other illegally obtained evidence is called "fruit of the poisonous tree."

Question 64

The term "arrest" is defined in the Bill of Rights.

Question 65

The case of Tennessee v. Garner dealt with the issue of capital punishment.

Question 66

The case that extended the exclusionary to the states was Weeks v. U.S.

Question 67

The case that gave a suspect the "right to remain silent" is Mapp v. Ohio.

Question 68

For the Miranda rights to take affect, all that is necessary is that the police arrest the suspect.

Question 69

In the case of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, who was shot at 41 times with at least 19 shots hitting the suspect and killing him, the police were convicted of second degree manslaughter.

Question 70

The case of Dickerson v. United States dealt with the issue of whether the federal congress can overrule the Supreme Court.