Police Procedure
Common Fourth Amendment Issues
Definitions
Exceptions To The Fourth Amendment
The Supreme Court
100

Burden Of Proof Needed To Obtain A Warrant

What's Is Probable Cause?

100

Protection From Unreasonable Search And Seizure

What Is The Fourth Amendment?

100

The Most Common Exception

What Is Consent?

200

A Legal Document Authorizing The Search Or Seizure Of A Property

What Is A Warrant?

200

When A Police Officer, Based On Personal Experience And Training Has Reason To Believe A Crime Has, Or Will Be, Committed

What Is Reasonable Suspicion?

200

Officers Can Seize Visible Contraband While On Public Grounds

What Is The Plain View Doctrine?

200

This Court Case Overturned Wolf V. Colorado, Enforcing The Use Of The Exclusionary Rule To The States

What Is Mapp V. Ohio?

300

When A Suspect Is Pat Down For Weapons

What Is A Frisk And Search?

300

Police Can Use Illegally Obtained Evidence If It Is Clear They Believed They Were Following Procedure

What is The Good Faith Exception?

300

Enforces Equal Protection Of The Law

What Is The Fourteenth Amendment?

300

Suspected Contraband That Is Readily Mobile May Be Searched For Without A Warrant

What Is The Automobile Exception?

300

In This Court Case, The Supreme Court Ruled That Each State Has The Right To Incorporate The Fourth Amendment Through It's Own Means

What Is Wolf V. Colorado?

400

When A Person Suspected By Officers Is Temporarily Stopped For Investigation

What Is A Terry Stop

400

Evidence Obtained Through Illegal Procedure Cannot Be Admitted In Court

What Is The Exclusionary Rule?

400

Police Can Seize And Search Property That Has Been Left Behind

What Is Abandonment Of Property?

400

This Case Is Responsible For Creating 'The Exclusionary Rule'

What Is Weeks V. United States?

500

When A Suspect Is Arrested, Officers May Check Anywhere Within The Suspect's "Wing-Span".

What Is Search Incident To Arrest?

500

These Terms Have Been Defined By The Supreme Court As Being With The Intention Of Finding Incriminating Evidence To Be Used Against A Person Or Persons In A Court Of Law

What Is Unreasonable Search And Seizure?

500

Temporary Nullification Of The Fourth Amendment In The Turn Of Emergency Circumstances

What Is Exigent Circumstances?

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