Ch 2

Question 1

Laws that govern proper procedures for investigators interesting suspects searching crime scenes in season property as evidence are referred to as

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Criminal procedural laws

Question 2

Laws which to find the legal requirements that have to be met to determine whether crime has been committed and whether a given suspect is guilty or innocent of a specific criminal act

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substantive criminal laws

Question 3

The first legal requirement that must be satisfied in order for the criminal investigation to proceed is determining

Of have a suspected criminal activity

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Corpus delicti

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The factual legal requirements of a crime that must be demonstrated and supported by evidence obtained during investigation

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Elements of the crime

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Written legal codes

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Statutes

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The act requirement is referred to in legal terms as

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Actus Reus

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Mental state during the act

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Mens rea

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According to the book the four mental states are

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Purposeful, knowing, reckless, negligent

Question 9

Mental desire for the act to produce a specific outcome

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Purposeful

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Mental awareness that the act most likely will produce a specific outcome

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Knowing

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Committing the act while disregarding his potential to produce a specific outcome

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Reckless

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Committing the act while failing to foresee is potential to produce a specific outcome

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Negligent

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This warrant is used when there is probable cause to believe the potential criminal evidence is on a sure course to a specific destination and will arrive at a specified date and time

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Anticipatory warrant and sneak and peek warrant

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This term refers to the authority of law-enforcement officers to stop and conduct a warrantless cursory or pat down search every person for concealed weapons

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Stop and frisk

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The purpose of this search is to ensure the officer safety to prevent the rest as possible escape and to prevent the arrestee from destroying evidence

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Search incident to arrest

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Under special circumstances A warrantless search can be undertaken because there is no reasonable suspicion or probable cause no reasonable expectation of privacy or both. these special circumstances include

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Open fields doctrine, curtilages, abandon property, probation parole searches, School searches, patriot act searches

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This evidence cannot be used in a court proceeding to prove the guilt of an individual accused of a criminal activity

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In admissible evidence

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The legal prohibition against illegally seized evidence is referred to as

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The exclusionary rule

Question 19

If it can be proven that a case against a suspect was originally founded upon illegally obtained evidence courts will declare all evidence subsequently gathered and collected in that case as tainted evidence. This is known as

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Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine

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This type of encounter involves casual nonthreatening and perhaps slightly inquisitive conversations between officers and persons with whom they are making contact

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Consensual encounter’s

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The next more serious level of contact between that of a consensual counter is

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Detention

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The members of the jury must evaluate the adequacy of evidence Relative to the fact is known as the

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Trier of the fact

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The judges role in trial proceedings is to ensure that the law is properly applied during the trial rule referred to as the

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Trier of the law

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When suspect waive the right to a jury trial

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Bench hearing

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This evidence includes tangible objects both visible and microscopic as well as anything that can perceived by the senses

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Physical or real evidence

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Anything that exist in written and printed or reported or recorded form can be classified as

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Documentary evidence

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This type of evidence includes spoken words as well as behaviors reasonably associated with the speaking of words

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Testimonial evidence

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Evidence that directly proves a suspects guilt

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Direct evidence

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Evidence that proves indirect proof of a suspects guilt

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Circumstantial evidence

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Evidence that suggests the Validity and reliability of other types of evidence

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Corroborative evidence

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Various evidence of the same nature that provides additional strength to the proof of a case

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Cumulative evidence