Criminal Law
Illegal Searches
Reasonable Expectations of Privacy
Admissible Evidence
Criminal Procedure
100
If the police arrest you, it would be smart to ask for a ______ because it cannot be used against you at trial.
What is a lawyer?
100
You have the greatest expectation of privacy in ____.
What is the home?
100
If the government uses technology that is not commonly available to search you, the search is likely ________?
What is unconstitutional?
100
If police officers lie about a warrant and conduct a search without probable cause, the evidence is _____ at trial.
What is inadmissible?
100
The _________ has the burden of proving that the crime was committed by the defendant.
What is the prosecution?
200
_____ v. _____ announced the rule that officers may stop and frisk individuals upon reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
What is Terry v. Ohio?
200
An officer can search your home if you ________ to the search
What is consent?
200
If the police are legally searching for a murder weapon in your home and see a mountain of cocaine on the kitchen table, that evidence is _________ at trial.
What is admissible?
200
The __________ ____ does not apply to all cases of illegally obtained evidence.
What is the exclusionary rule?
200
________ v. _______ held that suspects must be warned of their Constitutional right to counsel before custodial questioning by the police.
What is Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
300
Even if evidence found illegally is excluded from trial, you may still be ________ if other evidence established that you committed a crime.
What is convicted?
300
A roommate or spouse can consent to a search of your home, and/but an estranged spouse ___________.
What is cannot consent?
300
You have a _________ __ __________ in your home.
What is reasonable expectation of privacy?
300
If you are illegally arrested in your home, and then you tell the police something immediately afterwards, it will be ______ at trial.
What is admissible. (New York v. Harris, 1990).
300
Once convicted and having exhausted his/her appeals, a person convicted may still petition for a writ of ______ _____ to get him or herself out of prison.
What is habeas corpus?
400
The Latin term for an action that is illegal because it is inherently harmful or evil is ____ __ __.
What is malum in se?
400
A suspect leaves his trash in a locked, indestructible container by the side of the street for a private waste disposal company that is contractually obligated to shred, burn and destroy the trash without anyone other than the driver seeing it. The police make a deal with the driver to let them search the trash. This is a(n) ____________ search.
What is unconstitutional. (There is likely a reasonable expectation of privacy in this trash, given the steps taken to protect it).
400
Overnight guests have __________________ of privacy in the host's home
What is a reasonable expectation of privacy?
400
Evidence is _________ if the police conducted an illegal search but they believed in good faith that they had a valid warrant.
What is admissible? (US v. Leon 1984)
400
_____ v. _____ held that a court may try an individual for a crime even if he or she was brought into the court's jurisdiction by means of kidnapping.
What is Frisbie v. Collins? (1952)
500
Lawyers are not obligated to commit perjury while defending a client even if it is the only way to obtain a verdict of not guilty, because ______.
What is defendants have no constitutional right to commit perjury or to have an attorney commit perjury.
500
You steal a tv from Best Buy. The "loss prevention team" breaks down your door and takes it back a day later without a warrant. This search was _________ because __________.
What is constitutional because the "loss prevention team" is a private entity. (Private parties cannot violate prohibitions against government searches and seizures).
500
Temporary business visitors have ________________ of privacy in the place they are visiting.
What is no reasonable expectation of privacy?
500
Unconstitutionally obtained evidence is admissible if the police can establish that the evidence would have _____ _______ _______?
What is been discovered anyway/inevitably been discovered? (Nix v. Williams 1984)
500
The defense has the burden of proving any ________ raised at trial.
Defenses/affirmative defenses.
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