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The 4th Amendment
Radio Codes
Searches
Search Warrants
Vocabulary Terms
100
Protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures by the police (government)
What is the 4th Amendment?
100
Acknowledged
What is 10-4?
100
A set of facts or circumstances that is more than a hunch but less than probable cause that leads a reasonable person to believe that a crime has occurred, is occurring, or is about to occur.
What is "reasonable suspicion"?
100
An order in writing, signed by a judge, directed to a peace officer, commanding the officer to search, and to bring seized items before the judge.
What is a search warrant?
100
Occurs when an officer applies force or when a person voluntarily submits to the authority of the peace officer.
What is a "seizure of a person?"
200
The sworn facts and circumstances that support the reason to be evaluated by a judge.
What is an affidavit?
200
Request for an ambulance
What is 11-41?
200
A set of facts that would lead a reasonable officer to believe that a crime has occurred, is occurring, or is about to occur AND the person is connected to the crime.
What is "probable cause"?
200
A search warrant can normally be executed (served) between these hours.
What is 7am to 10pm?
200
Evidence that proves a fact. For example, a video recording of a suspect purchasing drugs from an undercover officer or something found at a crime scene.
What is evidence?
300
A priority of the authors of the US Constitution and the California Constituion was to avoide unlimited actions and intrusions by the government and to protect what 3 things?
What is a person's privacy, liberty, and possession of property?
300
An officer needs emergency help
What is 11-99?
300
Inadmissible or excluded evidence at trial is often referred to as this.
What is "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree"?
300
One of the statutory (legal) grounds for obtaining a search warrant.
What is: stolen or embezzled, used to commit a felony, in the possession of a person with intent to commit a public offense, evidence that a felony has been committed, evidence that shows the sexual exploitation of a child, in order to enter the residence of a 3rd party to execute an arrest warrant.
300
The act of drawing a conclusion from a fact. For example, if you see smoke then there must be fire.
What is "reasonable inference?"
400
Occurs when an expectation of privacy that society is prepared to consider reasonable is infringed upon by the government.
What is a search?
400
Prisoner
What is 10-16?
400
Exists only if a subject has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the place or thing that is searched or seized. A person needs this in order to challenge the legality of a search or seizure.
What is "standing"?
400
Two of the 7 things necessary in the search warrant. Without them, the search warrant is not valid.
What is: names of officers, statutory grounds for warrant, description of places to be searched, descriptions of things to be seized, date issued, judge's signature, whether or not nighttime service is authorized.
400
Evidence that proves a fact indirectly. For example, empty beer cans on the ground next to a drunk person supports the inference that someone in the car has been drinking.
What is "circumstantial evidence?"
500
The relatively small and usually well-defined area immediately around a residence to which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
What is curtilage?
500
Shots being fired
What is 11-6?
500
The flight of a plane or helicopter over a given area.
What is an overflight or fly-over?
500
The number of days a peace officer has to serve a search warrant once it has been signed by a judge.
What is 10?
500
The name of the form which lists all of the items that were seized during the execution of a search warrant.
What is the R&I form? (Receipt and Inventory)