Legal Aspects Of Investigations

Question 1

Procedural Law deals with all of the following except

Answer 1

Elements of a crime

Question 2

The due process clause is found in which Amendment of the Bill of Rights

Answer 2

Fifth Amendment

Question 3

Which of the following protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures

Answer 3

Fourth Amendment

Question 4

The ingredients of arrest include all of the following except

Answer 4

Force

Question 5

A temporary and limited interference with the freedom of a person for investigative purposes is the definition of a/an

Answer 5

Detention

Question 6

A judicial order commanding a person to whom it is issued or some other person to bring a person promptly before a court to answer a criminal charge

Answer 6

Arrest warrant

Question 7

A written statement of the information known to the officer that serves as a basis for the issuance of a warrant is a/an

Answer 7

Affidavit

Question 8

Which of the following is not usually required to be in the contents of a valid arrest warrant?

Answer 8

The authority to search the person arrested

Question 9

A John Doe warrant is valid

Answer 9

If there is a particular description of the perpetrator but the person’s name is not known

Question 10

Suspicion plus facts and circumstances which would lead a reasonable person, exercising ordinary caution, under the same circumstances to believe that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed

Answer 10

Probable cause

Question 11

Which of the following can be used to establish probable cause

Answer 11

Personal observations and knowledge of the investigator

Question 12

Until 1914, federal law enforcement officers, conducting an illegal search that produced incriminating evidence, were allowed to use that evidence in court. What happened that changed the use of illegal evidence by federal officers

Answer 12

Weeks v. United States

Forbids the use of illegally obtained evidence by federal officers.

Question 13

Circumventing the intent of Weeks V. US, whereby federal officers received illegally obtained evidence from state officers and used it in federal court was referred to as

Answer 13

Silver plate doctrine

Question 14

Which of the following is not an exception to the legal requirement of having a warrant to conduct a search and seizure?

Answer 14

Incident to an unlawful arrest

Question 15

what burden of proof is required to obtain a search warrant

Answer 15

Probable cause

Question 16

Which Supreme Court case held that officers executing a search warrant of a house acted reasonably by detaining the occupants of the house in handcuffs during the search

Answer 16

Muehler V. Mena

Question 17

Incriminating evidence is found during a consent search. What is the primary factor of the search that the court will look at in deciding whether evidence may be admitted

Answer 17

Was the consent to search voluntarily given?

Question 18

Which Supreme Court Case established the “moveable vehicle” rule?

Answer 18

Carroll v. United states

Question 19

What term is used to recognize that a warrantless entry by law enforcement officials may be legal when there is a compelling need for official action and no time to get a warrant?

Answer 19

Exigent circumstances

Question 20

Which if the following is not a requirement for a plain view search to be legal?

Answer 20

Evidence is found after a limited search

Question 21

The landmark Supreme Court ruling that allows stop and frisk procedures

Answer 21

Terry V. Ohio

Question 22

According to the courts, any new evidence seized resulting from unreasonably seized evidence is also tainted and is not admissible in court.

Answer 22

Fruits of the poisonous tree

Question 23

In minnesota V. Dickerson, why was the defendant not convicted?

Answer 23

Officer felt a substance is suspects pocket, subsequently determined to be cocaine, during a pat down and manipulated it to determine what it was.

Question 24

Evidence obtained from an unreasonable search and seizure cannot be used as the basis for learning about or collecting new admissible evidence not known about before is

Answer 24

fruits of the poisonous tree doctrine