Privacy
When the Government intrudes upon your reasonable expectation of privacy.
What is A search
This 1928 Supreme Court verdict held that tapping a phone line was permissible, so long as officers did not intrude into the suspects home.
What is Olmstead v. United States
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects people from unwarranted search and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment.
A search warrant can be issued to seize what four types of items.
What is evidence of a crime, the fruit of a crime, anything used to commit a crime, or contraband.
This is the landmark Supreme Court case that established the "stop and frisk" legal standard.
What is Terry v. Ohio.
The Fourth Amendment protects ___________, _________, ___________, & ___________.
What is People, Houses, Papers, and Effects
This 1967 Supreme Court verdict shifted the focus of privacy protection away from property and to the person.
What is Katz. v. United States
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects people from being forced to incriminate themselves, giving us the right to remain silent.
The Fifth Amendment.
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires warrants to be issued only upon probable cause, supported by an oath or affirmation, and describing the specific place to be searched and the people or things to be seized.
What is the Fourth Amendment
This is the required legal standard for an officer to make a lawful stop under the Terry ruling.
What is reasonable suspicion.
This rule was created to deter official misconduct and provide a remedy for 4th Amendment violations.
What is the exclusionary rule?
In this 1961 Supreme Court case, the Court applied the exclusionary rule to the states, meaning evidence obtained illegally is inadmissible in state courts.
Mapp v. Ohio
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects due process by guaranteeing the right to a speedy and public trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment
The level of legal proof required to obtain a search warrant.
What is probable cause?
This is the legal requirement that must be met for a Terry Stop to include a frisk of the individual.
What is a reasonable suspicion that the subject is dangerous.
This type of electronic data has a higher level of 4th Amendment protection.
What is content data?
The Supreme Court verdict from this trial established the exclusionary rule.
What is Weeks v. United States.
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution applied the bill of rights to State Governments.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment.
This document, submitted by a law enforcement officer, contains the facts used to establish probable cause for a warrant.
What is an affidavit of probable cause.
The Supreme Court clarified that reasonable suspicion must be based on more than a hunch and supported by these.
What are specific and articulable facts.
Prior to 1967, the government had to ___________ in order for an intrusion to be considered a search.
What is: Physically enter your home.
The Supreme Court Verdict for this 2012 case extended 4th Amendment warrant requirements to include any meaningful interference by police with a suspect's property.
Jones v. United States
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution includes what is known as "The Due Process" clause, stating: "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".
What is the Fifth Amendment
The requirement that a warrant be ______________ limits the scope of the search.
What is specific.
The purpose of a frisk.
What is to ensure officer safety.