Arrests
What is Assault (felony)? What is Resisting Arrest (misdemeanor)?
This is the individual from whom law enforcement seeks a search warrant.
What is a judge?
This is the search warrant exception for when a person voluntarily agrees to a warrantless search.
What is consent?
This is what a person posts to assure the Court that he/she will return for trial.
What is bail?
This is the document with formal criminal charges, filed by the prosecutor.
What is the Information?
This is the legal standard for a lawful arrest or search.
What is probable cause?
This is the document that must accompany a request for a search warrant.
What is affidavit (sworn, written statement of facts)?
This is the search warrant exception that allows police, who are lawfully in a private place, to seize illegal items without a warrant.
What is plain view?
This is the process of making a police record of an arrest.
What is booking?
These are the 3 options for entering a plea to a criminal charge.
What is:
1. Not guilty
2. Guilty
3. Nolo Contendere (no contest)
This is the legal standard for an officer to lawfully stop and question an individual.
What is reasonable suspicion?
These are the two main requirements of a search warrant.
1. What is state the specific place to be searched?
2. What is state the particular items to be seized?
This is the search warrant exception that allows police to search a building after a bomb threat or to enter a house after hearing screams.
What is the emergency exception?
This is an alternative to cash bail or a bail bond, and is essentially a promise to show up for trial.
What is personal recognizance?
This is a pretrial proceeding where the prosecutor is required to establish before a judge that a crime probably has been committed and that the defendant probably did it.
What is preliminary hearing?
An officer may do this if the officer has reasonable suspicion that a person who is being investigated is armed and dangerous.
What is stop and frisk?
This is the crime for which Judge Van Slyck gets the most middle-of-the-night search warrant requests.
What is Driving Under the Influence? (Or Physical Control Under the Influence)
This is the search warrant exception that allows police to search a person and his/her immediate "grab area".
What is search incident to lawful arrest?
This is an example of a non-monetary condition of release.
What is placing the defendant in the custody of a third party?
What is requiring the defendant to maintain or get a job?
What is requiring regular reports of whereabouts?
A defendant's attorney is likely to file this when seeking a ruling in a case, usually regarding evidence admissibility.
What is pretrial motion?
This is one thing that an officer considers when determining the reliability of an informant's tip.
What is past accurate statements?
What is how did the informant obtain the information?
What is corroboration from other sources?
This is a 4th Amendment requirement for officers who have a warrant to search a home.
What is the knock and announce rule?
These are two areas in which searches may be conducted without warrants and without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
What are borders and airports?
This is why Judge Van Slyck goes to the County Jail on Sundays.
What is the requirement that a booked defendant's arrest paperwork and bail be reviewed within 48 hours of arrest by a judicial officer?
This is the name of negotiations between the parties which usually lead to reduction in charges and/or punishment.
What is plea bargaining?