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Probable Cause and Arrests MCQ

Is probable cause facts and circumstances within officers’ knowledge, and of which they have reasonably trustworthy information, that would warrant a person of reasonable caution to believe that an offense has been or is being committed?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as police may not rely on exigent circumstances when the exigency was created or manufactured by the conduct of the police.

Police-created exigency doctrine

Deficient

All of these

Poor

Answer

Correct Answer: Police-created exigency doctrine

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_____ is defined as individual arrested for a misdemeanor.

Houses

All of these

Certiorari

Misdemeanant

Answer

Correct Answer: Misdemeanant

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_____ is an informant may not be required to testify.

Final judgment rule

None of these

Interlocutory appeal

Informant privilege

Answer

Correct Answer: Informant privilege

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Is fleeing-felon rule common law doctrine that police may use deadly force to apprehend a suspected felon who is fleeing the police?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as emergency circumstances justifying warrantless entry into the home.

Exigent circumstances

None of these

The Miranda test

The voluntary test

Answer

Correct Answer: Exigent circumstances

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_____ is defined as warrantless entry by the police into the home to provide assistance to an individual.

Emergency-aid doctrine

Encounters

A spouse

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Emergency-aid doctrine

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_____ is knowledge of a police officer working in a team is imputed to other officers on the team.

Collective knowledge theory

Brief

Indictment

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Collective knowledge theory

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Is citation no police custody of an individual who presents reliable identification and agrees to appear in court?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as judicial finding that there is probable cause to arrest an individual.

Roving wiretaps

NSLs

All of these

Arrest warrant

Answer

Correct Answer: Arrest warrant

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_____ is defined as police custody of an individual based on probable cause that he or she committed a crime.

Contraband

None of these

Arrest

A reason to file a complaint

Answer

Correct Answer: Arrest

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_____ is affidavit must detail informant’s credibility and basis of knowledge.

None of these

Hunch

Aguilar–Spinelli test

Reasonable suspicion

Answer

Correct Answer: Aguilar–Spinelli test

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Is affidavit sworn statement setting forth facts constituting probable cause that an individual has committed a criminal offense?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as individual who swears to a warrant.

None of these

Tort fees

Compensatory damages

Affiant

Answer

Correct Answer: Affiant

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In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court establish the current rule for establishing informant reliability?

Illinois v. Gates

Aguilar v. Texas

Spinelli v. United States

Draper v. United States

Answer

Correct Answer: Illinois v. Gates

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The area in which police are most likely required to have a warrant to make an arrest is ______.

A public street

The suspect’s home

The suspect’s car

A private business

Answer

Correct Answer: The suspect’s home

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In order to obtain a warrant, police must submit a(n) ______ to a magistrate.

Affidavit

Subpoena

Indictment

Appeal

Answer

Correct Answer: Affidavit

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What level of proof is required for police to make an arrest without a warrant?

Hunch

Preponderance of the evidence

Reasonable suspicion

Probable cause

Answer

Correct Answer: Probable cause

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What level of proof is required for police to obtain an arrest warrant?

Hunch

Preponderance of the evidence

Reasonable suspicion

Probable cause

Answer

Correct Answer: Probable cause

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Police officers are never allowed to make an arrest for a misdemeanor, but must instead issue a citation.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Deadly force is so controversial, in part, due to the fact that officers who use deadly force are, in effect, imposing capital punishment without trial.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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It is constitutional for a suspect to be confronted by police in the hallway outside the front door to his apartment and arrested without a warrant.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Unless there are exigent circumstances, to make an arrest in the suspect’s home, an officer must have an arrest warrant.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Most arrests take place with warrants.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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The U.S. Supreme Court changed from one informant test to the other because the requirements of the original test were simply too difficult to satisfy.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The totality of the circumstances test was initially established in the 1960s but then abandoned some 10 years later in favor of the Aguilar–Spinelli test.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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The order of burden of proof for arrests is reasonable suspicion.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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The police officer is required to demonstrate that he or she has good reason to believe that the informant’s information is accurate.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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An arrest is more intrusive than an investigative stop and frisk.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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