Exam 5: Criminal Law and Procedure

When conducting an investigation of terrorism,federal authorities seek warrants from what court?

Assume that an applicable state statute makes it a crime for a private citizen to possess a machine gun.For approximately three weeks,Officer Roy Holt had probable cause to believe that Alex Hood,a private citizen,possessed an arsenal of machine guns in his apartment.Acting on this probable cause,but without a warrant,Holt knocked on the door of Hood's apartment and asked Hood if he could come in to talk with him.Hood let Holt inside his apartment.Then,without Hood's consent,Holt began searching the entire apartment.Holt found several machine guns in the bedroom closet.He arrested Hood for an alleged violation of the statute mentioned above.In a pretrial motion,Hood's attorney asked that the court apply the exclusionary rule and suppress the evidence yielded by Holt's search of Hood's apartment.Should the evidence be suppressed?

Crimes are private wrongs.

Owners of commercial property enjoy greater privacy expectations in their property for Fourth Amendment purposes than do owners of residential property.

In Miranda v.Arizona,the United States Supreme Court mandated that police officers have to give suspects a warning about their rights.

When a court decides what sentence to impose,it normally places considerable reliance on the:

Which of the following would not be considered to be a white-collar crime?

The standard of proof in a criminal case is:

The Eighth Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishments.

Through the concept of agency,a corporation's higher level corporate officials may be held criminally liable even in the absence of proof that they ordered the criminal acts.