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An acceptable search based on place and reasonable potential of wrongdoing is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Suspicionless Search

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_____ procedure allows the police to detain and search a person when the officer reasonably suspects that a crime has been or will be committed.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Regulatory Searches are searches by government officials, such as _____ and fire inspections, that may be conducted without a warrant.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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An objective basis supported by specific facts for believing that someone committed a crime is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Reasonable suspicion

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In criminal law, the existence of more than a suspicion that a person has committed an illegal act is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Probable cause

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The rule that permits police officers to seize evidence without a warrant if it is easily seen is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Plain view doctrine

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In criminal law, the Inevitable Discovery makes an exception to plain view doctrine. Illegally obtained evidence may be used if eventually it would have been found illegally.

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Correct Answer: False

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Incident to a lawful Arrest allows law enforcement to search any person without a warrant once that person is lawfully arrested.

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ doctrine was applied to the states in Mapp v. Ohio. This case ruled that any evidence obtained during an illegal search would be disallowed at trial.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Exigent Circumstances are emergency circumstances that are present to prevent _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The rule excludes from trial evidence that was obtained_____, which violates a person’s constitutional rights is known as Exclusionary Rule.

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Correct Answer: Unlawfully

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Allows warrantless searches if evidence may be destroyed or in cases of imminent danger is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Emergency Doctrine

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Due Process means established rules and principles designed to protect private rights found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments that prevent the government from unfairly or arbitrarily depriving anyone of _____

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Correct Answer: Any of these

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When police officers ask for permission to search and you voluntarily say yes, they can proceed without a warrant, it is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Consent

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Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act is _____law that allows federal agencies to more easily monitor an individual’s phone calls and Internet messages.

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Correct Answer: 1994

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Automobile Exception states that, should police have probable cause to believe that a vehicle (including boats) contains_____, and/or instrumentalities of crime, the vehicle can be searched.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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