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Exceptions to the Warrant Requirement MCQ

Is submission to authority pretending that a warrant is on the way to coerce consent to search?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as warrantless searches justified by public safety concerns

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Correct Answer: Special needs searches

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_____ is defined as a warrantless search of an arrestee’s person and the area within his immediate control

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Correct Answer: Search incident to an arrest

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_____ is a cursory examination by police to eliminate a possible threat to officer safety, following specific information that armed people are on the premises

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Correct Answer: Protective sweep

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Is plain view a warrantless seizure of contraband out in the open by officers lawfully on the premises?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as while patting down a suspect during a Terry stop, officers are allowed to remove obvious contraband from the suspect’s person.

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Correct Answer: Plain feel

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_____ is defined as the Fourth Amendment recognizes privacy interests only in “persons, papers, houses, and effects,” not open spaces

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Correct Answer: Open field

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_____ is a method to gain consent to enter a suspect’s home and engage in conversation

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Correct Answer: Knock and talk

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Is inventory search a warrantless search and eventual accounting of an offender’s personal property in government custody?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as Officers may continue to chase a retreating suspect who poses a danger to the public into a dwelling without first obtaining a warrant.

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Correct Answer: Hot pursuit

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_____ is defined as emergencies that require fast action on the part of law enforcement to prevent the dissipation or disappearance of evidence or to help those in need

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Correct Answer: Exigent circumstances

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_____ is brief, investigatory stop to check for driver impairment, not to search the vehicle for drugs

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Correct Answer: Driving checkpoint

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Is dog sniff a procedure involving dogs trained to seek out drugs, bombs, or other contraband by smell and alert their handlers to the presence of these items. A dog sniff does not count as a search, but may establish probable cause?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as government search and seizure; may happen on conviction without a warrant

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Correct Answer: DNA collection

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_____ is defined as the area immediately surrounding a structure in which a resident retains an expectation of privacy

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Correct Answer: Curtilage

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_____ is an individual’s voluntary grant of authority; a defense based on the victim’s willing participation in the crime

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Correct Answer: Consent

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Is common enterprise the legal doctrine holding all occupants in a vehicle liable for all contraband found and seized inside?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as Any bags, luggage, Tupperware containers, purses, briefcases, or other items that are closed and may be searched for contraband and evidence

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Correct Answer: Closed containers

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_____ is defined as a type of warrantless search; people crossing the border have a lesser expectation of privacy because no one has an absolute right to enter the country

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Correct Answer: Border search

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_____ is an invasive search of the mouth, anus, or vagina

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Correct Answer: Body cavity search

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Is automobile exception warrantless search of a private vehicle for contraband based on probable cause?

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Correct Answer: True

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In a hot pursuit situation, officers may not enter a private residence without a warrant.

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Correct Answer: False

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Dog sniffs are not searches.

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Correct Answer: True

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During a lawful inventory search of a car’s contents, closed containers may not be opened.

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Correct Answer: False

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The exclusionary rule may apply to all of the following situations EXCEPT______.

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Correct Answer: Mistakes about probable cause in the warrant

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The U.S. Supreme Court has held collecting a person’s DNA on arrest is an act similar to______.

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Correct Answer: Fingerprinting

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Exigent circumstances are what type of circumstances?

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Correct Answer: Emergency

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Officers used a drone to fly over Shoshina’s property and noticed a 10-acre illegal marijuana grow. Shoshina’s argument that officers conducted an illegal warrantless search will fail because the marijuana was located in a(n)______.

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Correct Answer: Open field

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To conduct a protective sweep, officers must have specific and articulable facts that______.

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Correct Answer: There are armed people on the premises

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What is the primary difference between a search of a home and vehicle?

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Correct Answer: The government has a relationship with a vehicle through registration and inspection

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In the Carroll v. U.S. (1925) case establishing the automobile exception to the warrant requirement, the U.S. Supreme Court held the ripping of the car’s upholstery in the search for ______ legal because the vehicle could be quickly moved.

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Correct Answer: Bootleg liquor

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In the Chimel v. California (1969) case that established the search incident to arrest doctrine, after police arrested Ted Chimel they then______.

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Correct Answer: Searched Chimel’s entire house for the next hour

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Offenders on probation and parole enjoy a diminished expectation of privacy and can be subject to search without a warrant because______.

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Correct Answer: Public safety outweighs diminished liberty

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When police officers try to obtain consent to search by saying they have a “warrant on the way” when, in fact, there is no warrant, courts will hold any ensuing consent to search involuntary because the suspect simply______.

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Correct Answer: Submitted to authority

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The holding in Georgia v. Randolph (2006) with respect to obtaining consent to search from cotenants is: ______.

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Correct Answer: If one tenant on site refuses consent, police may not search without a warrant

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The U.S. Supreme Court has said that law enforcement officers do not violate the Fourth Amendment by merely approaching______.

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Correct Answer: An individual and asking questions

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