Exam 6: Search and Seizure With a Warrant

A search warrant identifies the individual to be targeted. The search warrant then permits the officers to search for any item that they wish to find. Further, the warrant allows the officers to search any building that the officers wish to search. This warrant is constitutional, valid, and legal.

An officer is limited in the amount of force that he or she can use while executing a search warrant.

An officer is executing a search warrant. The officer announces his presence and intent to execute the warrant. The individual will not open the door. The officer should ______________.

A search warrant identifies all officers of the state of Kentucky as the officers that must execute the warrant. Therefore, ________________ can execute the warrant.

An officer wants to search a residence for narcotics. A search warrant must specifically identify ____________ as the target of the search.

An officer illegally discovers evidence, but another officer then discovers that evidence at a later time through legal means. That evidence will be allowed at trail under the "independent source" doctrine.

The Fourth Amendment states that no warrants shall be issued without ______________.

An officer is executing a search warrant. That officer must knock on the door to the residence and announce his or her presence before entering the residence (unless there are specific exigent circumstances).

Probable cause can be satisfied by _______________.

The ______________ states that police cannot automatically use force to execute a search warrant.

While executing a search warrant, an officer can search any person that is around the area being searched, regardless of the proximity of that person to the area.

Officers are executing a search warrant to find an illegal handgun. The officers gain entry to the identified residence. During the search, they find two individuals in the residence. The officers ______________.

Officers are executing a search warrant on an apartment. The officers spot an individual walking one block away from the apartment. The individual is not named in the warrant, and the individual did not leave the apartment. The officers _________________.

The U.S. Supreme Court has stated that search warrants must be justified beyond a reasonable doubt.

The U.S. Supreme Court has stated that an officer must announce his or her intent to execute an arrest warrant. The Court further held that an officer must wait ten minutes for an individual to respond before using force to gain access to an area.

An officer enters into a house to execute a search warrant. Three individuals are in the house. The officer searches the three individuals to ensure that they are unarmed. The officer finds a handgun. That evidence will be admitted at trial.

Probable cause is __________________ than the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.

The Fourth Amendment states that a warrant is invalid unless ________________.

Search warrants must be executed in a reasonable amount of time.

The Fourth Amendment states that a search warrant shall only be issued upon the grounds of reasonable suspicion.