4A Basics
4A Exceptions
Case Rules
Standards
Moot Court Fact Pattern
100

What four things does the 4th Amendment cover?

What is persons, houses, papers & effects?

100

An officer can seize an item without a warrant if he observes the object in _______.

What is plain view?

100

What case created the standard for searches in schools?

What is New Jersey v. T.L.O.?

100

Which is harder to meet: reasonable suspicion or probable cause?

What is probable cause?

100

The Appellant of the case in your Moot Court problem who won at the Court of Appeals

The School/School Board

200

The 4th Amendment requires law enforcement officers to get _________ from a judge to search your home.

What is a warrant?

200

_________ is a question of fact to be determined from the totality of the circumstances, which includes many factors viewed together.

What is voluntariness?

200

A school official cannot strip search a student without a specific suspicion that the student is hiding evidence in intimate places.

What is Safford v. Redding?

200

This requires looking at an officer's "totality of the circumstances" to determine if a "reasonable person" would believe an offense was committed.

What is probable cause?

200

The Appellee of your Moot Court case who won in the Trial/Lower Level Court

Who is Jayme
300

The Fourth Amendment is a right of the _____.

What is people?

300

A brief non-intrusive, warrent-less police stop and search of a suspect.

What is stop and frisk?

300

An officer may conduct a search of a cellphone found incident to arrest only for their own safety, to preserve evidence, or under "exigent circumstances."

What is Riley v. California?

300

What do school administrators need in order to justify a search?

What is reasonable suspicion?

300

SRO Davis allegedly had this when searching Jayme's phone

What is informed consent

400

Name one of the factors considered when determining voluntariness.

What is age of the accused, education, intelligence level, knowledge of rights, length of detention, nature of questioning, or physical abuse/punishment?

400

It excludes any evidence gathered by the government during an unlawful search or seizure.

What is the exclusionary rule?

400

Qualified immunity protects government officials from liability for civil damages unless their conduct violates clearly established constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.

What is Jackson v. McCurry?

400

Explain the test used for determining if an "expectation of privacy" is reasonable.

Subjective: an individual's personal belief that their situation is private

Objective: society at large recognizes an expectation of privacy

400

Jayme missed out on this due to her suspension 

What is a college tour

500

List the three requirements for a search warrant.

What is (1) probable cause, (2) supported by oath or affirmation, (3) particularly describing the place being searched or item being seized?

500
Explain what police can and cannot search incident to an arrest.

What is the person's body, clothes, and sometimes car? Police cannot search a person's cell phone based solely on an arrest.

500

The search of a cell phone's content is not needed to establish a violation of a school rule prohibiting cell phone use during class.

What is GC v. Owensboro Public Schools?

500

How is the reasonableness of a search determined?

What is asking (1) whether the search was justified at inception, and (2) whether the scope of the search was reasonably related to the circumstances leading to interference? 

500

This was the name of the Instagram account that Jayme allegedly won

What is @midnight_truths_mlbrk