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Nonstop, Stop, Arrest
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100
The act of taking an individual into custody for the purpose of charging the person with a criminal offense or a delinquent act.
What is an arrest.
100
The Supreme Court ruled that in addition to the suspicion required to justify a stop, the officer must have reasonable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous in order to conduct a frisk.
What is Terry v. Ohio.
100
With the exception of exigent circumstances, arrest warrants are required in two situations, which are?
What is arrest in the home and arrest in third-part homes.
100
A suspect is handcuffed, placed in the back of a patrol car, and driven to the police station.
What is an arrest.
100
Latin for guilty mind.
What is mens rea.
200
An order issued by a judge directing a law enforcement officer to arrest an individual identified as one who commits a specific criminal offense.
What is an arrest warrant.
200
The Court declared that a state attorney general cannot issue a search warrant. State attorneys general are chief prosecutors and this inclined to side with the law enforcement officers.
What is Coolidge v. New York
200
The police will generally not be liable for property damaged during the service of a warrant; however, due process can be violated if the property damage is?
What is excessive.
200
If a person is accosted by a single police officer and asked general questions about their involvement in a crime.
What is a stop.
200
Latin term that means to abide by or to adhere to decided cases.
What is stare decisis.
300
A superficial examination by the officer of the person's body surface or clothing to discover weapons or items that could be used to cause harm.
What is a frisk.
300
The Court held that an individual can be detained during a search of his or her house, without such activity rising to level of an arrest, as long as the police have a search warrant and even of there is no probable cause to arrest him or her.
What is Michigan v. Summers.
300
The situations in which law enforcement officials ______ search without a warrant almost outnumber the number in situations in which they _______ search without a warrant. "CANNOT & CAN/CAN & CANNOT"
What is can and cannot.
300
Exceeds the courts opinion about, particularly, degree and duration.
What is an arrest.
300
How many Court's of Appeal is there?
What is 13, including DC and the Federal Circuit.
400
A brief non-consensual encounter between a law enforcement officer and a citizen that does not rise to the level of an arrest; the detention of a person by a law enforcement officer for the purpose of investigation.
What is a stop.
400
The Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment prohibits warrantless, non-consensual entry into a private home for purpose of making an arrest.
What is Payton v New York.
400
Two types of warrantless arrest have been authorized by the Supreme Court. They are?
What is if exigent circumstances are present and an arrest in public.
400
_____ occurs when a reasonable person would believe that they are free to leave.
What is a nonstop.
400
Document issued when the United States Supreme Courts grants to hear your case.
What is writ of certiorari.
500
Also called a stationhouse detention, a less intrusive detention than an arrest but more intrusive than a "Terry" stop. Stationhouse detentions are used in many locations for such purposes as obtaining fingerprints and photographs, ordering lineups, administrating polygraph examinations, and securing other types of evidence.
What is an investigative detention.
500
The Supreme Court has permitted the police to stop a car based on the belief that a crime has been committed. In addition, once a person has been stopped, the officer can order him/her to stand outside the vehicle without any justification.
What is Whren v. United States.
500
Particularity requirements for a search warrant are?
What is the warrant must specify the place to be searched and the warrant must specify the items to be seized.
500
Police officers surround you at the mall to ask you a few questions about your thoughts on police brutality followed by a quick survey.
What is a nonstop.
500
It requires that evidence obtain in violation of the Constitutional cannot be used in a criminal trial to prove guilt. It is a rule, opposed to a Constitution provisions, because nowhere in the Constitution does it say that illegally obtain evidence must be excluded at trial.
What is the exclusionary rule.
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