Police Handbook 2015 Flashcards
__1__ Amendment: protection against illegal searches and seizures.
- Fourth Amendment
__1__ Amendment: right against self-incrimination; due process under the law; protection against double jeopardy
- Fifth Amendment
__1__ Amendment: the right to a trial by an impartial jury; confrontation of witnesses; the right to counsel.
- Sixth Amendment
__1__ Amendment: right to be free or cruel and unusual punishment.
- Eighth Amendment
__1__- police are not required to obtain a warrant to effect a search of automobiles and other moving vehicles when they have probable cause that a crime is being committed, since the time required in obtaining a search would permit the mobile evidence to be lost or destroyed
- Carroll v. United States (1925)
__1__- the exclusionary rule for illegal searches and seizures applies in the states
- Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
__1__- the state must provide an attorney to indigent defendants whenever there is the possibility of imprisonment.
- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
__1__- illegally obtained derivative evidence (“fruit of the poisonous tree”) can be purged through voluntary conduct, such as a voluntary confession given after an improperly obtained confession.
- Wong Sun v. United States (1963)
__1__- the right to counsel is activated at all critical stages of an adversarial proceeding. Cf. Gilbert v. California.
- Massiah v. United States (1964)
__1__- (Warren, J.) police must read defendants the four warnings in interrogations of defendants in police custody. Otherwise, confessions are to be excluded.
- Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
__1__- the right to counsel applies in all critical stages of an adversarial proceeding. Signature analyses are not critical stages, since the presence of an attorney would not in any way protect the defendant.
- Gilbert v. California (1967)
__1__- post-indictment police lineups are critical stages for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel.
- United States v. Wade (1967)
__1__- when pursuing a dangerous suspect and time is of the essence, police may conduct warrantless searches. The following elements must be met; (i) there is probable cause (always necessary for searches and seizures), (ii) under exigent circumstances justifying the warrantless search, (iii) the pursuit begins from a place where the police have a lawful right to be, and (iv) the legal violation is serious enough to justify a warrantless search.
- Warden v. Hayden (1967)
__1__- police do not need probable cause in order to effect a frisk of a defendant’s body in order to assure officer safety. If police, while conducting a frisk, develop independent probable cause that a crime is being committed or that the defendant is in possession of contraband, they may search for and seize the contraband without a warrant. A police stop does not require probable cause, but rather, a reasonable and articulate suspicion that a crime is being committed.
- Terry v. Ohio (1968)
__1__- police need neither a warrant nor probable cause in order to effect a search of a defendant’s wingspan (the area within the immediate control (the area within his immediate control) in order to assure officer protection (search incident to lawful arrest exception to the need for a warrant).
- Chimel v. California (1969)
__1__- once police have seized a vehicle, they are not required to obtain a search warrant. They may search it as they would have at the time it was stopped. Rationale: (i) cars and other mobile vehicles were primarily means of transportation; (ii) they are driven in plain view; (iii) they are subject to heavy regulation.
- Chambers v. Maroney (1970)
__1__- when the incriminating nature of evidence is immediately apparent to police while they are in a place where they have a lawful right to be, they may seize it under the plain view doctrine.
- Coolidge v. New Hampshire
__1__- the state must provide an attorney to indigent defendants whenever imprisonment is imposed, for any offense, whether it is a felony, misdemeanor, or petty.
- Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972)
__1__- there is no right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment during a pre-indictment police lineup, since adversarial proceedings have not yet begun.
- Kirby v. Illinois (1972)
__1__- photographic lineups are not critical stages for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment Right and do not require the right of counsel.
- United States v. Ash (1973)
__1__- a person who is arrested without a warrant is entitled to a hearing to determine whether there is probable cause to arrest him.
- Gerstein v. Pugh (1975)
__1__- if police read a defendant his Miranda Rights and the defendant refuses to speak, the police may return to the defendant and interrogate him afresh without reading the Miranda rights, provided it is done within a reasonable period of time.
- Michigan v. Mosley (1975)
__1__- police must first apply for a search warrant for small closed objects seized from a car before opening them. Since police may seize the objects before applying for a search warrant, the exigent circumstances inherent in mobile automobiles does not apply.
- United States v. Chadwick (1977)
__1__- when evidence is firmly rooted in exceptions at the time of ratification of the Constitution, it bears an adequate indicia of reliability and is not to be excluded by the Confrontation Clause. In dicta: the Confrontation Clause and the Federal Rules if Evidence are largely congruent: testimony that satisfies the rules of evidence is admissible under the Confrontation Clause.
- Ohio v. Roberts (1980)
__1__- courts are not required to suppress statements volunteered to the police or that are not responsive to a question, even when the Miranda rights are not read.
- Rhode Island v. Innis
__1__- when police have probable cause, they may search the entire vehicle until they find the object of the probable cause.
- United States v. Ross (1982)
__1__- evidence obtained through an illegal confession is not to be excluded when it would have been inevitably discovered.
- Nix v. Williams (1984)
__1__- a person is in police custody when he believes that he is not free to leave from the perspective of the reasonable person (objective) in his situation (subjective).
- Berkemer v. McCarty (1984)
__1__- although probable cause is generally required for all Fourth Amendment searches and seizures, it is not required for Border Searches.
- United States v. Montoya de Hernandez (1985)