Consent Searches
Vehicle Searches
Miranda Basics
Interrogation Rules
Landmark Cases
100

Authority required to give consent to search

What is standing?

100

Standard required to search a vehicle without a warrant

What is probable cause?

100

Amendment that protects against self-incrimination

What is the Fifth Amendment?

100

Questioning must stop after this is invoked

What are Miranda rights?

100

Established Miranda rights

What is Miranda v. Arizona (1966)?

200

Consent must be free from this

What is coercion?

200

Case allowing full vehicle search including containers

What is United States v. Ross (1982)?

200

Required before custodial interrogation

What are Miranda warnings?

200

Can silence alone invoke Miranda rights?

What is no?

200

Consent must be voluntary case

What is Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)?

300

Can a hotel clerk consent to a room search? Why?

What is "no, they do not have standing over another person's room"?

300

Exception allowing search due to vehicle mobility

What is the automobile exception?

300

Two key elements required for Miranda

What are custody and interrogation?

300

Case where silence was NOT enough

What is Berghuis v. Thompkins (2010)?

300

Public safety exception case

What is New York v. Quarles (1984)?

400

When two co-tenants disagree, whose refusal wins?

What is the physically present objector? (Unless both are present, then the "no" overrides the "yes")

400

Case limiting searches on curtilage

What is Collins v. Virginia (2018)?

400

Are Miranda warnings required during traffic stops?

What is no?

400

Are police allowed to lie about evidence?

What is yes?

400

Two-step interrogation ruled unconstitutional

What is Missouri v. Seibert (2004)?

500

Can police search after consent is withdrawn?

What is no (they must stop immediately)?

500

Search conducted when a car is impounded

What is an inventory search?

500

Case stating traffic stops are not custodial

What is Berkemer v. McCarty (1984)?

500

Illegal tactic where police question first, warn later

What is the two-step interrogation?

500

Reinitiation allowed after 14 days

What is Maryland v. Shatzer (2010)?