EOPA Week 2

Crime Scene Search 1

100

This is the right for people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers & effects.

Reasonableness clause

200

This means that no warrants will be issued without probable cause and supported by oath or affirmation 

The warrant clause

300

Name three ways to conduct a legal search.

warrant, consent, patdown/frisk, incident to arrest, exigent circumstances, moveable automobile, inventory, entry to the country, plain sense and open fields

400

This refers to when an emergency or immediate danger to public safety exists.

Exigent circumstances

500

Which court case helped determine that automobiles may be searched without a warrant?

Carroll v. United States

Vocabulary

100

This is any taking by law enforcement of contraband, evidence or a person. 

Seizure

200

This is the area within a person's reach; usually referred to after someone is arrested. 

Immediate control

300

This is evidence obtained as a result of an earlier illegal search and is excluded from trial.

Fruits of the poisonous tree

400

This is impressions transferred to a surface by sweat, residue of body oil, blood or dirt.

latent fingerprints

500

This establishes that illegally obtained evidence may be admissible if the police were not aware they were violating the 4th amendment.

Good faith doctrine

Crime Scene Search 2

100

This includes a search plan where duties are divided & a search pattern is determined. 

Crime Scene Search

200

This is a specialist in collecting and processing evidence; attends autopsies, writes reports & testifies in court.

Crime Scene Investigator

300

These two court cases established the exclusionary rule and that courts will not accept illegally obtained evidence. 

Weeks v. U.S. & Mapp v. Ohio

400

This is done to establish if a crime was committed, which crime was committed and its basic function is to conduct a thorough legal search of the crime scene. 

Investigatory Search

500

What are the 4 types of crime scene searches?

Strip/lane, Quadrant/zone, Grid & Sprial

Crime Scene Search 3

100

This is the roughness of your finger; gives traction so you can grab things.

Friction ridges

200

This is now the most common method of fingerprinting; electronic.

Digital fingerprinting

300

What does AFIT stand for?

Advanced Fingerprint Information Technology

400

This is when a fingerprint is made dirty.

Visible fingerprints

500

What kinds of surfaces could contain fingerprints?

hard, smooth non porous