Exam 7: Policing: Legal Aspects

Define suspicionless searches.Discuss the pros and cons of permitting searches of individuals who are not suspected of a crime.Do you think that public safety is a compelling interest that can negate an individual's right to privacy or are these searches a violation of the individual's constitutional rights? Support your response.

Match the Supreme Court case to its main ruling. A)U.S.v.Leon B)Weeks v.U.S. C)Mapp v.U.S. D)Escobedo v.Illinois E)Chimel v.California F)Terry v.Ohio G)Silverthorne Lumber Co.v.U.S. H)Harris v.U.S. -Applied the exclusionary rule to the states

Which Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures?

Police may set up information-seeking roadblocks even though they are stopping people without any reasonable suspicion.

The ________ exception to Miranda allows inappropriately-obtained evidence to be used at trial if it would have turned up anyway in the normal course of events.

Fingerprints and DNA are examples of non-visible or ________ evidence.

Terry-type stops require reasonable suspicion.

When are the police allowed to conduct a search of someone who is not suspected of a crime?

An anticipatory warrant only requires reasonable suspicion,not probable cause.

Match the Constitutional right with the amendment that guarantees it. A)Fourth B)Fourteenth C)Fifth D)Sixth E)Eighth -Right against unreasonable searches and seizures

Which U.S.Supreme Court case was responsible for the creation of the exclusionary rule?

Match the item of evidence with the correct type. -Written confession

The ________ holds that evidence illegally seized by the police cannot be used in a trial.

The post-Warren Supreme Court has continued the trend of the Warren-era advances in the area of individual rights.

Which of the following would not be considered a form of nontestimonial evidence?

________ exists when a set of facts and circumstances that would induce a reasonably intelligent and prudent person to believe that a particular person has committed a specific crime.

The ________ Amendment provides protection against arrest without probable cause.

The case of ________ set the standard for stop and frisk.

A lineup is a form of interrogation.

A(n)________ warrant does not claim that evidence is present at the time the warrant is requested but expects that the evidence will be there when the warrant is executed.