CHAPTER E Flashcards
1
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- What clauses are significant about the 4th amendment. 2.
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- Protection forum unreasonable searches and seizures clause.
- The warrants clause.
2
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- What clause is important in the 5th amendment
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- The privilege against self incrimination clause
3
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- What clause is important about the 6th amendment clause 2
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- Right for confrontation clause
2. The right to counsel clause
4
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- What is probable cause
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- The minimum amount of information necessary to warrant a reasonable person to believe that a crime has been or is being committed by a person who is about to be arrested.
5
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- How do officers establish probable cause 2.
2. What must an informant information be deemed
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- Through their own observations
- Through hearsay, or a third party like informants
- Reliable and verifiable
6
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- The exclusionary rule deals with what
- What does the exclusionary rule state
- What case is responsible for the exclusionary rule
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- Issues of search and seizure
- That courts will exclude any evidence that was illegally obtained even though it may be relevant material
- Mapp vs Ohio
7
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- What is an officers SCOPE OF THE SEARCH after arresting a person
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- Officers can search only the arrested person and the immediate physical surroundings under the defendants control
8
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- What is the Gant test.
- How many prongs must be true
- What are the 2 prongs
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- A two prong test to determine if and what area can be searched
- Just one
- The first prong deals with access and states “ police may search a vehicle incident to a recent occupants arrest only if the arrestee is within reaching distance it the passenger compartment at the time of the search.
- The second prong permits the search of the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle following the arrest of a recent occupant of that the vehicle when “ it is reasonable to believe the vehicle contains evidence of the arrest”
9
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- What are the 3 exceptions to the exclusionary rule
10
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- The good faith exception.
- The inevitable discovery doctrine
- The computer errors exception
10
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- What is the most important aspect to serving a search warrant
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- The briefing
11
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- For a search warrant to be legal it must meet requirements. What are the 3 legal requirements
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- It just be authorized by the proper official
- It just be issued only for specifically authorized objects.
- It must be issued on probable cause
12
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- What information must the search warrant include 5
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- Reasons to request the search
- Name of the officer requesting the warrant
- Items to be seized
- Specific place to be searched
- Signature if the issuing judge.
13
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- What must be prepared before obtaining a search warrant
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- An affidavit
14
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- What does the affidavit tell the judge 3
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- What is being search for - contraband , instruments of crime , weapons , fruits of crime
- Where the search is to occur - residence , business , vehicle
- Why the search is to be conducted - probable cause is adequately outlined, facts establishing probable cause
15
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- What is A SEARCH WARRANT RETURN.
- Where is the search warrant returned to
- Within how long must the search warrant return , be returned
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- An itemized inventory of all property snd material seized by the officers at the location of the search
- A copy is left with the defendant
- And the return itself is returned to the issuing judge.
- Within 24 hours after the search
16
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- What is an ANTICIPATORY SEARCH WARRANT
- When can an anticipatory search warrant be executed
- What is the specific event called
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- A search warrant that is based on an affidavit showing probable cause to believe that at some future time , particular evidence of a crime will be located at a particular place
- Not until a specific event has occurred
- The triggering conditions
17
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- Where what circumstances are warrantless searches authorized.
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- Consent searched.
- Searches under exigent circumstances
- Searches incident to lawful arrest
- Stop and frisk searches
- Plain view searches
- Automobile searches
- Open field searches
18
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- When is a consent search helpful to officers
2. How must consent to search be given
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- When officers have no legal basis for obtaining a search warrant.
- A consent search just be authorized voluntarily, with no coercion from officers.
19
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- What must first happen for consent to be valid
20
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- Officers must first establish that the person giving consent has legal authority to do so
20
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- What will happen if the consenting person changes his mind.
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- Then the search must cease immediately
21
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- When can police do a warrantless search for an emergency search
- What do the courts define as exigent circumstance
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- When exigent circumstances exist
- When the time it would take to get a warrant would jeopardize public safety or
- Lead to the loss of important evidence or suspect escaping
22
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- What is required for an officer to stop and detain somebody
- What case give police the authority to conduct field interviews (investigatory detentions ) and pat down searches
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- Reasonable suspicion that the suspect is involved in criminal activity
- Terry vs Ohio