Deck 10: Policing and the Law

Question 1

Which of the following pertains to taking private property in a criminal investigation?

A) seizure
B) probable cause
C) search
D) justification

Answer 1

A

Question 2

You are in a strange neighborhood, and a police officer drives by. He can clearly see that you do not know the neighborhood and are not from there. He stops you and frisks you because he just had a report of someone who looked like you with a knife. What level of justification did the officer use?

A) probable cause
B) search and seizure
C) reasonable suspicion
D) administrative justification

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following would be characterized as meaningful interference with an individualʹs possessory interest in that property?

A) search
B) seizure
C) probable cause
D) reasonable suspicion

Answer 3

B

Question 4

You see a person hastily throw something away in a trash can when he or she saw a police officer walking toward him or her. After you tell the police officer this, he reaches in the bag you saw and finds a gun. He then goes up to the person you saw throw it away and conducts a search. What does the finding of the gun signify to the court?

A) the reasonableness of the search
B) an illegal search
C) reasonable expectation of privacy
D) administrative justification

Question 5

As a police officer in an investigation, you need to enter a certain house in which you suspect you will find evidence of a crime. What do you need to be sure you follow in order to gain evidence correctly?

A) administrative justification
B) Miranda rights
C) Fourth Amendment
D) State Supreme Court

Question 6

You need to get an arrest warrant from a magistrate for an offender you have dealt with before. You know the name and have a location. What requirement have you met?

A) probable cause
B) neutral magistrate
C) search and seizure
D) particularity

Question 7

The police have set up a roadblock checkpoint to check car inspections to ensure that the cars on the road are safe for all. What is this an example of?

A) administrative search
B) search and seizure
C) administrative justification
D) warrant search

Question 8

A suspect is running away from a police officer and runs into another one blocking his way out of an alley. What could this be considered?

A) search
B) seizure
C) justification
D) reasonableness

Question 9

Which of the following is a requirement of an arrest warrant?

A) any magistrate with the authority to sign
B) a magistrate already involved in the case in some way
C) a magistrate heavily involved in prosecuting that type of offense
D) a neutral and detached magistrate

Question 10

Which of the following would require the civil equivalent of probable cause?

A) proof beyond a reasonable doubt
B) preponderance of the evidence
C) reasonable suspicion
D) administrative justification

Question 11

Which of the following would be an example of a situation in need of an arrest warrant?

A) Two adolescents are caught in school with guns.
B) A woman is held at knifepoint in her home.
C) A man is caught on the street shortly after being seen buying drugs.
D) A man is arrested for unpaid traffic tickets at his home.

Question 12

You are approaching a house owned by the friend of someone you know just caused a hit -and-run accident. The friend is out on the porch, and you ask him if you can enter the house and look for the suspect. He says
Yes, and you find the suspect. The suspectʹs attorney argues that you did not have a warrant, but the judge
Allows it. What is this an example of?

A) searches incident to arrest
B) searches based on exigent circumstances
C) plain-view searches
D) consent searches

Question 13

Which of the following parts of the Fourth Amendment would be used by a police officer to gather evidence in a criminal matter?

A) seizure
B) probable cause
C) search
D) justification

Question 14

Which of the following is defined as a cursory visual inspection of those places in which a person might be hiding?

A) evanescent evidence
B) search incident to arrest
C) arm-span rule
D) protective sweep

Question 15

Which of the following would be used if police are in pursuit of a man who robbed a liquor store at gunpoint and ran into a house?

A) search incident to arrest
B) protective sweep
C) plain-view doctrine
D) hot pursuit exception

Question 16

What would a doctrine that limits a search immediately following arrest to the area within the immediate control of the person arrested be called?

A) search incident to arrest
B) arm-span rule
C) protective sweep
D) exigent circumstances

Question 17

After impoundment, which of the following would occur as a warrantless search?

A) stop and frisk
B) person inventory
C) vehicle inventory
D) checkpoint

Question 18

Which of the following would meet criteria for reasonable suspicion?

A) less than probable cause, but more than preponderance of the evidence
B) less than preponderance of the evidence, but more than administrative justification
C) less than administrative justification, but more than hunch
D) less than proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but more than probable cause

Question 19

Which of the following is characterized as the focus of a courtʹs examination of the reasonableness of a search or seizure?

A) probable cause
B) seizure
C) reasonable suspicion
D) justification

Question 20

You pass a home that has a marijuana plant in a hanging planter on the deck. As a police officer, you stop and seize it, arresting the occupants of the home. They argue that Katz prevents you from doing so. What would be the ruling?

A) The home is a physical location and is protected.
B) A home has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
C) The owners were in the home and were covered as protected persons.
D) A plant on a deck is knowingly exposed to the public.

Question 21

After a suspect is released from questioning for a certain period of time, he is no longer under the Miranda warning. How long is this period of time?

A) 3 days
B) 7 days
C) 10 days
D) 14 days

Question 22

Justification is needed before officers can conduct a search and seizure.

Question 23

If an officer engages in search and seizure without justification, he or she violates the Fourth Amendment.

Question 24

Reasonable suspicion is a higher level of justification than probable cause.

Question 25

Which of the following would be an example of evanescent evidence?

A) blood on the sidewalk in a rain storm
B) blood in a car after an accident
C) blood in a private home after a shooting
D) blood in a vial taken at the hospital

Question 26

Police must be very concerned about how they conduct searches in order to maintain arrests.

Question 27

This is a location at which a warrantless, suspicionless search can be conducted for the safety of the general public.

A) stop and frisk
B) person inventory
C) vehicle inventory
D) checkpoint

Question 28

Search incident to arrest is the first type of permissible warrantless search.

Question 29

Which of the following states that in any federal prosecution a confession shall be admissible in evidence if it is given voluntarily?

A) Fifth Amendment
B) due process voluntariness
C) 18 U.S.C. Section 3501
D) Miranda rights

Question 30

All acts of looking for evidence are within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.

Question 31

Which of the following occurs when a suspect is searched immediately after apprehension in order to ensure officer safety?

A) automobile searches
B) plain-view searches
C) searches based on exigent circumstances
D) searches incident to arrest

Question 32

Searches are performed to figure out where a criminal is located.

Question 33

Initiated by a police officer that are intended to incriminate a specific individual in a criminal matter are said to be which of the following?

A) interrogation
B) due process
C) functional equivalent
D) express

Question 34

Which of the following would be used by the police to warn people about their control over police questioning?

A) Fifth Amendment
B) due process voluntariness
C) 18 U.S.C. Section 3501
D) Miranda rights

Question 35

A police officer is on duty and playing a pick -up game of basketball with some local teens as part of public relations. He is tapped to sit out while someone else goes in, and he sits on a bench near some backpacks. One of the backpacks was open, and he could see some white powder in a baggie and a pipe. How is he able to conduct a warrantless search at this point?

A) It was a consent search.
B) It was a search incident to arrest.
C) It was a plain -view search.
D) It was a search based on exigent circumstances.

Question 36

Arrests made in third-party homes do not require a warrant to search the property.

Question 37

When police have probable cause to believe that a person they are chasing has committed a crime and is on the premises entered, upon what is the search based?

A) consent
B) hot pursuit
C) evanescent evidence
D) plain-view

Question 38

There are two types of exigencies: hot pursuit and evanescent danger.

Question 39

Probable cause is the standard for stop-and-frisk activities.

Question 40

Which of the following is described as a pat down of a personʹs outer clothing done out of concern for the officerʹs safety?

A) search
B) seizure
C) frisk
D) stop

Question 41

Police officers violate the Fourth Amendment if they engage in search and seizures without .

Question 42

Interrogation is the second major component of Miranda.

Question 43

One search that can be conducted without a warrant is a plan -view search.

Question 44

In concern for the officerʹs safety, a frisk is used to pat down a personʹs outer clothing.

Question 45

Elements of a situation that serve to justify a search and seizure are known as protective sweep.

Question 46

If a vehicle contains evidence of a crime, it is permissible to conduct a warrantless search.

Question 47

searches are permissible without warrant and probable cause.

Question 48

A signed statement by the accused is something the police should secure.

Question 49

Search incident to arrest is a search that maintains the safety of arresting officers.

Question 50

Reasonable suspicion is a level of justification below cause.

Question 51

A concern with the of consent is whether the consent can be withdrawn once given.

Question 52

Courts noted that there is no justification for overruling Miranda.

Question 53

Evidence that is likely to is known as evanescent evidence.

Question 54

The U.S. Court has defined probable cause as more than bare suspicion.

Question 55

Evidence of criminal activity cannot be detected using search rationale.

Question 56

The second requirement of an arrest is that a showing of cause must be made.

Question 57

The two types of inventories are person inventory and housing inventory.

Question 58

There are two amendments in place to restrict how the government can obtain confessions.

Question 59

Consent searches are not permissible by warrants.

Question 60

Searches are activities performed in order to find to be used in criminal prosecution.

Question 61

Reasonableness is the element of a situation that is used to a search or seizure.

Question 62

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: person inventory
Column 2: search of arrestee and his or her personal items

Question 63

rights are a set of rights that an accused person has during interrogation.

Question 64

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: search
Column 2: activity performed to find evidence to be used in prosecution

Question 65

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: reasonableness
Column 2: elements of a situation that justify a search or seizure

Question 66

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: administrative justification
Column 2: special-needs or regulatory searches attempt to achieve protecting individualsʹ privacy and public safety

Question 67

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: probable cause
Column 2: set of facts used to make someone believe a person has committed a specific crime

Question 68

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: exigent exception
Column 2: situation that makes warrantless search permissible

Question 69

One key element in the Sixth Amendment approach is deliberate .

Question 70

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: evanescent evidence
Column 2: evidence that is likely to disappear quickly

Question 71

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: hot pursuit exception
Column 2: allows officers to enter suspected crime areas without warrant when they or others may be endangered

Question 72

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: arm-span rule
Column 2: doctrine established that limits search of an area where the arrest was made

Question 73

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: Fourth Amendment
Column 2: governs search and seizure

Question 74

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: seizure
Column 2: confiscation of a person or property by a government agent

Question 75

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: justification
Column 2: focus of the courtʹs examination of reasonableness of search or seizure

Question 76

The potential for circumventing the Miranda decision came in the form of 18 U.S.C. Section .

Question 77

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: protective sweep
Column 2: may be conducted by police to the point of arrest, but must be supported by reasonable suspicion

Question 78

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: stop and frisk
Column 2: detaining of a person for the purpose of an investigation

Question 79

During interrogation, the police should secure a signed by the accused.

Question 80

Match the following terms with their meanings.
Column 1: government action
Column 2: consists of measures to affect a search undertaken by someone employed or working for government