Search Warrant
Potpourri
The Colonies
100
In order to get a search warrant, there must be this.
What is probable cause?
100
The famous US Supreme Court case from Ohio in which the Court held that illegally gathered evidence could not be used against the accused?
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
100
The colonists believed that writs of assistance to violate this law.
What is the Enlightenment idea of natural law?
200
A search warrant must contain this specific information.
What is the place to be searched and the person/things to be seized?
200
The name of the U.S. Supreme Court case from Cleveland in which the court said that a frisk/pat-down search without an arrest or warrant was OK?
What is Terry v. Ohio?
200
In the American colonies, British soldiers searched homes for contraband goods using this type of document.
What is a writ of assistance?
300
The kind of search permitted without a warrant when someone is arrested by the police.
What is a search incident to arrest?
300
The rule that bars or limits the use of illegally obtained evidence against an accused.
What is the exclusionary rule?
400
This consideration is critical to the courts in analyzing whether the Fourth Amendment will apply.
What is a reasonable expectation of privacy?
400
The requirement that the police have a search warrant is not necessary if a person does this.
What is consent (to the search)?
500
A search warrant is not issued unless the information provided with the request for the warrant is presented in this way.
What is based on oath or affirmation?
500
A search warrant exception which arises from an emergency situation (for example overhearing someone scream "don't shoot me!")
What is exigent circumstances?
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