2.37: CRJ 4.5 Multiple Choice Questions (33)

The most significant contributor to the violence in a domestic violence situation.

• Police Brutality
• Automobile Search
• Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
• Primary Aggressor

A ruling by the SCOTUS that criminal suspects have the right to have a lawyer present at police interrogations.

• Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
• Particularity Requirement
• Exigent Circumstances Exception
• Hot Pursuit Search

An exclusion to the Miranda warning requirements in situations where the public safety demands the police ask questions immediately, such as the location of a dangerous weapon that may cause harm to someone.

• Knock and Announce
• Right to Remain Silent
• Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
• Public Safety Exception

An exception to certain procedural protections based in the idea that the public safety comes ahead of individual liberties.

• Affidavit
• Exigent Circumstances Exception
• Sixth Amendment
• Rules of Criminal Procedure

Common law rule that police could use deadly force to stop a person known to be a offender from getting away.

• Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
• Exigent Circumstances Exception
• Fleeing Felon Rule
• Police Brutality

A “pat down” search of a person for weapons; only lawful if the officer has reasonable suspicion to believe the suspect is armed.

• 1983 Suit
• Reasonable Suspicion
• Arrest Warrant
• Terry Stop

An exception to the search warrant requirement that allows an officer to seize contraband when the contraband is seen from a place where the officer has a lawful right to be.

• Plain View Doctrine
• Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
• Tennessee v. Garner (1985)
• Stop and Frisk

Prohibited the use of torture as a means of obtaining confessions by the police.

• Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
• Exigent Circumstances Exception
• Tennessee v. Garner (1985)
• Inevitable Discovery Exception

A special type of warrant that waives the knock and announce requirement.

• Arrest Warrant
• Consent Search
• No-knock Warrant
• Affidavit

A Constitutional Amendment that contains several clauses dealing with the rights of accused persons.

• Particularity Requirement
• Mere Hunch
• Hot Pursuit Search
• Sixth Amendment

Court enforcement of some right.

• Remedy
• Reasonable Suspicion
• Mere Hunch
• Automobile Search

An exception to the exclusionary rule that allows illegally obtained evidence to be used in court if it would have been found legally anyway.

• Tennessee v. Garner (1985)
• Fleeing Felon Rule
• Inevitable Discovery Exception
• Police Brutality

A landmark SCOTUS decision in which the Court established an “inevitable discovery exception” to the exclusionary rule.

• Knock and Announce
• Nix v. Williams (1984)
• Plain View Doctrine
• Exigent Circumstances Exception

A warrantless but lawful search of premises for a person actively evading a police chase.

• Hot Pursuit Search
• Knock and Announce
• Weeks v. U.S. (1914)
• Affidavit

A written order, issued by a judge, commanding any law enforcement officer within the court’s jurisdiction to take the named person into custody and bring them before the court.

• Mere Hunch
• Reasonable Suspicion
• Arrest Warrant
• New York v. Quarles (1984)

A type of search that requires probable cause as specified by the Fourth Amendment, but is exempt from the general warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment.

• Automobile Search
• Affidavit
• Mere Hunch
• U.S. v. Leon (1984)

Comes from the Fifth Amendment’s protection from compelled self-incrimination.

• Right to Remain Silent
• Remedy
• Affidavit
• Weeks v. U.S. (1914)

An intuitive feeling that a suspect is engaging in criminal activity, but no specific evidence can be articulated.

• Police Brutality
• Automobile Search
• Open Fields Doctrine
• Mere Hunch

An evidentiary standard falling between a mere hunch and probable cause.

• Reasonable Suspicion
• Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
• Arrest Warrant
• Automobile Search

A “pat down” search of a person for weapons; only lawful if the officer has reasonable suspicion to believe the suspect is armed.

• Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
• Stop and Frisk
• Automobile Search
• Plain View Doctrine

The use of force by police in excess of what is reasonably necessary to accomplish a legitimate criminal justice purpose.

• Stop and Frisk
• 1983 Suit
• Nix v. Williams (1984)
• Police Brutality

A type of police search that relies on the knowing and voluntary waiver of the Fourth Amendment rights of the person being searched.

• Inevitable Discovery Exception
• Automobile Search
• Reasonable Person Test
• Consent Search

A legal doctrine holding that a warrantless search outside the curtilage of the home is not a violation of the property owner’s Fourth Amendment rights.

• Public Safety Exception
• Rules of Criminal Procedure
• Right to Remain Silent
• Open Fields Doctrine

A type of lawsuit originating under Section 1983 of Title 42 of the United States Code that allows people to sue government employees for violating their constitutional rights.

• Open Fields Doctrine
• 1983 Suit
• Reasonable Person Test
• Arrest Warrant

A landmark SCOTUS decision in which the Court created the “good faith” exception to the exclusionary rule.

• U.S. v. Leon (1984)
• Reasonable Person Test
• Automobile Search
• 1983 Suit

A written or printed statement made under oath.

• Affidavit
• Nix v. Williams (1984)
• Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
• Plain View Doctrine

A Fourth Amendment principle that requires officers to clearly and precisely describe the place to be searched and the things to be seized in order for a search warrant application to be approved by a magistrate.

• Reasonable Suspicion
• Hot Pursuit Search
• Particularity Requirement
• Exigent Circumstances Exception

A landmark SCOTUS decision that established the exclusionary rule in federal courts.

• Rules of Criminal Procedure
• Weeks v. U.S. (1914)
• Open Fields Doctrine
• Exigent Circumstances Exception

A test of rationality based on how a typical person, with ordinary prudence, would act in certain circumstances.

• Open Fields Doctrine
• Tennessee v. Garner (1985)
• Reasonable Person Test
• Fleeing Felon Rule

A landmark SCOTUS decision where the Court invalidated a Tennessee statute that codified the fleeing felon rule.

• Mere Hunch
• Hot Pursuit Search
• Tennessee v. Garner (1985)
• 1983 Suit

A common law rule incorporated into the Fourth Amendment that requires officers to ______________________ their identity as police officers before entering a person’s home to serve a search warrant.

• Knock and Announce
• Nix v. Williams (1984)
• Weeks v. U.S. (1914)
• Public Safety Exception

Rules promulgated by the SCOTUS that govern how federal criminal prosecutions are conducted.

• Police Brutality
• Public Safety Exception
• Terry Stop
• Rules of Criminal Procedure

A landmark SCOTUS decision in which the Court established a public safety exception to the Miranda warnings.

• New York v. Quarles (1984)
• Terry Stop
• Sixth Amendment
• Primary Aggressor

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