Deck 1: Surveillance Technology and the Reasonable Expectation of Privacy: Claire Nolasco Aneta Spaic

Question 1

The Supreme Court in Olmstead v. United States (1928) involving the use of wiretapping by law enforcement officers held that there was no search because

A) The officers did not physically intrude on the defendants' offices or houses.
B) The defendants did not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of their conversations.
C) The defendants did not have any objective expectation of privacy in areas outside their house.
D) None of the above.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Supreme Court in Goldman v. United States (1942) involving the use of detectaphone by law enforcement officers held that there was no search because

A) The officers did not physically intrude on the defendant's office when they placed the wiretap with electronic devices.
B) The officers did not physically intrude on the defendant's office when they held the detectaphone against the defendant's office walls while they were in the adjoining vacant office.
C) The defendants did not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of their conversations.
D) The defendants did not have any objective expectation of privacy in areas outside their office.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What are the two elements of the reasonable expectation of privacy test established by the Supreme Court in Katz v. United States (1967)?

A) A person must have an objective expectation of privacy that he considers reasonable.
B) A person must have manifested an actual, subjective expectation of privacy.
C) That expectation must be one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable.
D) Both a and c.
E) Both b and c.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

What did the Court rule in Kyllo v. United States (2001) when deciding on the use of a thermal imaging device by law enforcement officers to track the indoor cultivation of marijuana?

A) The use of the thermal imaging device to know the contents of the home was not a search because heat emanating from the house is located in open fields.
B) The use of the thermal imaging device to know the contents of the home was a search because the device was not available to the general public.
C) The use of the thermal imaging device to know the contents of the home was not a search because the defendants did not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in the heat.
D) All of the above.

Question 5

Which of the following cases used the property trespass test in determining whether police action was a search?

A) Katz v. United States.
B) Kyllo v. United States.
C) California v. Ciraolo.
D) United States v. Jones.

Question 6

Which of the following cases used the reasonable expectation of privacy test in determining whether police action was a search?

A) Olmstead v. United States.
B) Katz v. United States.
C) United States v. Jones.
D) Goldman v. United States.

Question 7

Which areas and objects are protected by the Fourth Amendment?

A) Person.
B) Houses.
C) Papers and effects.
D) Privacy rights.
E) All of the above.

Question 8

Which of the following statements is true?

A) The property trespass test for searches is used by the Supreme Court today.
B) The reasonable expectation of privacy test for searches is in use by the Court today.
C) The reasonable expectation of privacy test is no longer valid.
D) The reasonable expectation of privacy test has been supplemented by the property-based test for searches.
E) None of the above.

Question 9

A person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in which of the following areas?

A) House.
B) Curtilage.
C) Open fields.
D) All of the above.

Question 10

Which of the following surveillance technology devices did not involve the physical intrusion of law enforcement officers into constitutionally protected areas and hence was not considered a search?

A) Detectaphone used in Goldman v. United States (1942).
B) Aerial precision camera used in Dow Chemical Co. v. United States (1986).
C) Beeper tracking device used in United States v. Knotts (1983).
D) All of the above.