This is the right for people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers & effects.
Reasonableness clause
This is any taking by law enforcement of contraband, evidence or a person.
Seizure
This includes a search plan where duties are divided & a search pattern is determined.
Crime Scene Search
Friction ridges
This means that no warrants will be issued without probable cause and supported by oath or affirmation
This is the area within a person's reach; usually referred to after someone is arrested.
Immediate control
This is a specialist in collecting and processing evidence; attends autopsies, writes reports & testifies in court.
Crime Scene Investigator
This is now the most common method of fingerprinting; electronic.
Digital fingerprinting
Name three ways to conduct a legal search.
warrant, consent, patdown/frisk, incident to arrest, exigent circumstances, moveable automobile, inventory, entry to the country, plain sense and open fields
This is evidence obtained as a result of an earlier illegal search and is excluded from trial.
Fruits of the poisonous tree
These two court cases established the exclusionary rule and that courts will not accept illegally obtained evidence.
Weeks v. U.S. & Mapp v. Ohio
What does AFIT stand for?
Advanced Fingerprint Information Technology
This refers to when an emergency or immediate danger to public safety exists.
Exigent circumstances
This is impressions transferred to a surface by sweat, residue of body oil, blood or dirt.
latent fingerprints
This is done to establish if a crime was committed, which crime was committed and its basic function is to conduct a thorough legal search of the crime scene.
Investigatory Search
This is when a fingerprint is made dirty.
Visible fingerprints
Which court case helped determine that automobiles may be searched without a warrant?
Carroll v. United States
This establishes that illegally obtained evidence may be admissible if the police were not aware they were violating the 4th amendment.
What are the 4 types of crime scene searches?
Strip/lane, Quadrant/zone, Grid & Sprial
What kinds of surfaces could contain fingerprints?