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Interrogations and Confessions MCQ

Is voluntary, knowing, and intelligent waiver a relinquishment of Miranda rights must be the product of a free and deliberate choice and with full awareness of the nature of the right being abandoned and the consequences of the decision to abandon it?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the use of coercion and violence by the police to extract confessions.

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Correct Answer: Third degree

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_____ is defined as evidence that is communicative in character.

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Correct Answer: Testimonial evidence

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_____ is an oral or written declaration to the police that may constitute an assertion of innocence.

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Correct Answer: Statements

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Is star Chamber a special court that was established by the English king in the fifteenth century and that was charged with prosecuting and punishing political and religious dissidents?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as police may question an individual who has invoked his or her right to silence about a crime different in time, nature, and place after waiting a significant period of time and giving a fresh set of Miranda warnings.

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Correct Answer: Scrupulously honor

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_____ is defined as police may question an individual without reading Miranda, obtain a confession, and then read the Miranda rights and reinterrogate the suspect. The confession is admissible so long as the Miranda warnings function effectively to advise suspects of their rights.

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Correct Answer: Question first and warn later

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_____ is police may ask questions reasonably prompted by a reasonable concern with public safety without first advising a suspect of his or her Miranda rights.

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Correct Answer: Public safety exception

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Is police methods test due process test intended to regulate police interrogation techniques?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as evidence that is noncommunicative in character.

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Correct Answer: Nontestimonial evidence

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_____ is defined as the police are required to inform individu­als of the right to remain silent, that anything they say may be used against them, and of the right to an attorney, retained or appointed.

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Correct Answer: Miranda warnings

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_____ is confessions that result from coercion, drugs, or a mental disability rather than free will.

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Correct Answer: Involuntary confessions

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Is interrogation words or actions on the part of the police that are likely to lead a suspect to incriminate himself or herself?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the test for waiving a prior invocation of counsel under Miranda.

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Correct Answer: Initiation

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_____ is defined as law enforcement questioning of individuals in the isolation of a police station.

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Correct Answer: Incommunicado interrogation

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_____ is the waiver of a right as indicated by an individual’s words and actions and the totality of the circumstances.

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Correct Answer: Implied waiver

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Is fundamental fairness fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause prohibits states from criminal procedures that are fundamentally unfair. States are otherwise free to structure their criminal justice systems?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as words or actions on the part of the police that the police should know are reasonably likely to lead a defendant to incriminate himself or herself.

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Correct Answer: Functional equivalent of express questioning

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_____ is defined as confessions may not be obtained through psychological or physical coercion that overcomes the will of the individual to resist.

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Correct Answer: Fourteenth Amendment due process voluntariness test

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_____ is an innocent individual confesses to a crime that he or she did not commit.

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Correct Answer: False confessions

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Is express waiver an affirmative relinquishment of a right?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a direct question.

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Correct Answer: Express questioning

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_____ is defined as questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his or her freedom of action in any significant way.

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Correct Answer: Custodial interrogation

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_____ is an individual admits the commission of a crime in response to police questioning.

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Correct Answer: Confessions

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Is break in the custody rule individual who invokes right to counsel may be interrogated after fourteen days?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an individual admits a fact that tends to establish guilt, such as his or her presence at the shooting scene. An admission, when combined with other facts, may lead to a criminal conviction.

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Correct Answer: Admissions

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The burden of proof that a suspect waived his or her Miranda rights rests on ______.

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Correct Answer: The prosecution

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All of the following are aspects of the Miranda warning EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Right to appeals

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At which point must a suspect be read his or her Miranda warnings?

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Correct Answer: Before custodial interrogation

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The McNabb–Mallory rule addresses which of the following?

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Correct Answer: Police interrogation

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Which test for confessions is used to ensure their voluntariness?

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Correct Answer: The due process test

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In order to waive his or her right to counsel, a suspect must do so voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently.

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Correct Answer: True

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Questions directed at a suspect about a specific offense are known as “express” questions.

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Correct Answer: True

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Police can only interrogate a suspect who has invoked his or her Miranda rights once an attorney is present.

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Correct Answer: False

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A waiver of Miranda rights will not be recognized if it was obtained after a lengthy incarceration.

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Correct Answer: True

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If a suspect voluntarily walks into a police station and confesses to an offense without being read his Miranda rights, his confession is inadmissible in court.

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Correct Answer: False

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Once a suspect invokes either the right to silence or the right to an attorney, he or she is not subject to interrogation.

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Correct Answer: True

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Most state courts view the failure to present a detainee for arraignment to be the primary factor to be considered in evaluating whether a confession was coerced.

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Correct Answer: False

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U.S. policy in regard to coerced confessions stems from English common law policy.

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Correct Answer: True

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Suspects subjected to lengthy interrogations are more likely than those who have not to provide a confession, even a false one.

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Correct Answer: True

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According to Inbau, police often must employ interrogation techniques that the public may consider manipulative.

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Correct Answer: True

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