Unreasonable Search & Seizure, And Arrested Rights

Question 1

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Answer 1

Exclusionary rule – prevents police and prosecutors from using evidence against a defendant that was obtained in an illegal search

Question 2

Murray v. United States (1988)

Answer 2

Allowed prosecutors to use products of illegal searches if other evidence unrelated to the illegal evidence would have justified a search warrant

Question 3

Minnesota v. Carter (1998)

Answer 3

An officer acting on a drug tip could peer through the gap in Venetian blinds to observe illegal activity without violating the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 4

Wyoming v. Houghton (1999)

Answer 4

Police who have probable cause to search an automobile for illegal substances may also search personal possessions of passengers in the car

Question 5

Kyllo v. United States (2001)

Answer 5

Police could not use high-technology thermal devices to search through the walls of a house to check for the presences of high- intensity lights used for growing marijuana

Question 6

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Answer 6

Miranda warnings and Upheld in principle by Burger and Rehnquist Courts, despite the granting of exceptions

Question 7

Powell v. Alabama (1932)

Answer 7

Court ruled that legal counsel must be supplied to all indigent defendants accused of a capital crime

Question 8

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Answer 8

Court ruled that defendants accused of any felony
in state jurisdictions are entitled to a lawyer and that
states must supply a lawyer when a defendant
cannot afford to do so