Constitutional Amendments
Landmark
Cases
Search and Seizure
Rights and Legal Principle

Miscellaneous
100

This Constitutional Amendment protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures?

What is the 4th amendment

100

This case established stop-and-frisk.

What is Terry v. Ohio?

100

A limited search for weapons during a Terry stop.

What is a frisk?

100

The rule that illegally obtained evidence may be excluded from trial.

What is the exclusionary rule?

100

The rules governing the mechanisms under which crimes are investigated, prosecuted, adjudicated, & punished?

What is criminal procedure?

200

Police must give Miranda warnings under this amendment.

What is the Fifth Amendment?

200

This case ruled that police cannot take someone to the station without probable cause.

What is Dunaway v. New York?

200

The standard needed to make a full arrest.

What is probable cause?

200

The principle that protects people’s right to privacy

Reasonable expectation of privacy 

200

When obtain without duress this serves as an exception to the 4th A warrant requirement, and is often granted

What is consent?

300

The amendment guaranteeing the right to counsel.

What is the Sixth Amendment?

300

This case established the reasonable expectation of privacy test.

What is Katz v. United States?

300

The lower standard needed to stop someone temporarily. 

What is reasonable suspicion?

300

Evidence discovered as a result of illegal police conduct may be excluded under this doctrine.

What is fruit of the poisonous tree?

300

This administrative search is conducted without discretion, and deemed to be a reasonable search falling outside of the 4th A warrant requirement.

What is an inventory search?

400

This amendment applies the Bill of Rights to the states.

What is the Fourteenth Amendment?

400

This case created the totality of the circumstances test for informant tips.

What is Illinois v. Gates?

400

Evidence seen openly by police may be seized under this doctrine.

What is the plain view doctrine? 

400

The idea that police must justify their actions with objective facts and not mere hunches

What are specific and articulable facts?

400

The area around an individuals home afforded more 4th A protection.

What is curtilage? 

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