Quiz #5 Flashcards
A pretextual stop is best defined as:
The police use the legal justification of a traffic violation stop to conduct an investigation for other criminal activity.
True or False: Law enforcement agencies may set up roadblocks in emergency situations in order to detect and apprehend a dangerous criminal.
True
True or False: Law enforcement officers may order a passenger to get out of a car during a traffic stop.
True
True or False: Police may randomly pull over vehicles in order to determine if the driver has been drinking or using drugs.
False
True or False: Police may set up a roadblock to investigate drug trafficking if they post a sign notifying drivers of the upcoming roadblock.
False
True or False: Police may stop a motor vehicle based on reasonable suspicion of criminal activity even though there has been no traffic violation.
True
True or False: The police stop a motorist for speeding on an interstate highway. Though the officer has no other reason to detain the motorist, the officer wants to detain the motorist long enough to bring a drug sniffing dog to the scene. That will take approximately twenty minutes. May the officer detain the motorist beyond the time necessary to write the traffic ticket?
False
True or False: United States Border Patrol Agents must obtain a search warrant in order to search a person who is entering the United States of America from another country.
False
Which of the following statements accurately reflect the law regarding investigative roadblocks?
The police may conduct a roadblock to randomly stop cars for the purpose of identifying drunk drivers.
True or False: While conducting a sobriety checkpoint, officers observe illegal drugs in the back seat of a vehicle which has stopped at the checkpoint. Are the drugs admissible in evidence.
True
