Key Terms
Detention
Warrants
Founding Fathers
Freedom of Speech
100
Property that is unlawful to possess, such as illegal drugs, and stolen property.
What is Contraband?
100
A limited weapons search conducted by patting down a suspect's outer clothing.
What is Frisk?
100
A receptacle that is capable of holding another object, such as luggage, boxes, bags, purses, briefcases, automobile glove compartments, etc.
What is a Container?
100
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
This Amendment protects the Right to Bear Arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
200
The name of 1968 Supreme Court Decision which established the criteria required for making an investigatory stop.
What is Terry v. Ohio?
200
A seizure that lasts too long or is too invasive to be treated as an investigatory stop.
What is an Arrest?
200
What are the three modes a LEO is in at all times?
What are Consensual Encounter, Investigatory Stop, Arrest.
200
They wrote the Federalists Papers.
Who are James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton?
200
The 1st Amendment protects these four freedoms.
What are Speech, Press, Right to Assemble, and Freedom of Religion?
300
The Latin term for "body of the crime."
What is Corpus Delicti?
300
A written order of a court, made on behalf of the government, directing an officer to arrest a person and bring him or her before a magistrate.
What is an Arrest Warrant?
300
The grounds and outbuildings immediately surrounding a dwelling, which are regularly used for domestic and family purposes, such as the yard and garbage.
What is Curtilage?
300
He wrote the US Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
300
This Supreme Court decision determined that a law prohibiting flag burning was prohibited.
What is Texas v. Johnson?
400
A written order, issued by a justice or magistrate, in the name of the state, authorizing a LEO to search a specified location for described objects that constitute evidence of a crime or contraband.
What is Search Warrant?
400
The degree of factual certainty needed to justify an arrest.
What is Probable Cause?
400
The degree of factual certainty needed to seize an object as evidence.
What is Probable Cause?
400
Who are three of the best known Founding Fathers?
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin
400
This test refers to preventing imminent lawless action.
What is the Brandenburg Test?
500
A formal written accusation made by a grand jury.
What is an Indictment?
500
A term describes both investigative stops and arrests.
What is Seizure?
500
Tangible objects derived through or in consequence of the commission of a crime, such as stolen money or property or funds obtained from the sale of the stolen property.
What are Fruits of the Crime?
500
He oversaw the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
500
This test used to determine Obscenity.
What is "The Miller Test?"