School Searches
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This case created a two-prong test for school searches.
What is NJ v. TLO?
100
This case established that police must have a warrant before retrieving cell phone data.
What is Riley v. California?
100
This doctrine allows a police officer to look through your car window for any evidence of a crime, after they have legally stopped you.
What is plain view?
100
This case established that police can pat down a citizen during an encounter on the street, if they have reasonable suspicion.
What is Terry v. Ohio?
100
When police ask for permission to search, and you give it.
What is consent?
200
In NJ v. TLO, the student was suspected of this crime/infraction.
What is smoking?
200
GC v. Owensboro took place in this circuit
What is the 6th Circuit?
200
In order to conduct a lawful search of a vehicle, what must police officers have done first?
What is conduct a lawful traffic stop?
200
In order to pat down a citizen during a stop, a police officer must have a fear of?
What is danger/safety?
200
This means that police have "more than a hunch" that you may have conducted a crime.
What is reasonable suspicion?
300
The second prong of the TLO test, it deals with how far a search can go.
What is "reasonably related in scope?"
300
In Riley v. California, this type of evidence was found on the defendant's cell phone.
What is video footage of gang affiliation?
300
This rap song famously (and incorrectly) deals with police searches of vehicles and mentions how the "glove compartment is locked, so is the trunk and the back... so you gon need a warrant for that."
What is 99 problems?
300
This type of item is the only thing a police officer can search for during a stop & frisk.
What is a weapon?
300
This term means that the police believe that it is fairly likely that you have committed a crime, and can articulate their suspicion.
What is probable cause?
400
The first prong of the TLO test, it deals with how the search came about in the first place.
What is "Justified at its inception?"
400
School administrators cannot search cell phones, but are permitted to do this.
What is confiscate/seize them?
400
In a car with 4 people in it, a driver, a front passenger, and two rear passengers, who are the police allowed to search?
Who is everybody in the car?
400
This major northeast city vowed to end the practice of stop & frisk in 2015 after numerous major lawsuits. However, the policy is still in place.
What is New York City?
400
When arrested, this is always the first thing you should say.
What is "I want my lawyer!"
500
This type of search has been deemed by the Supreme Court to almost never be allowed in schools.
What is a strip search?
500
In GC v. Owensboro, the school district argued that this allowed them to search the students phone.
What is a history of drug use and threats of suicide?
500
If a vehicle is impounded, this type of search is performed to make sure the items in the car are accounted for.
What is an inventory search?
500
Before a police officer conducts a stop & frisk, this type of stop has usually occurred.
What is an investigatory stop?
500
This occurs when the government looks for evidence against you in a criminal proceeding.
What is a search?
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