Criminal Procedure (U.S.) MCQs (Chapterwise Multiple Choice Questions)

Slavery and its repercussions were addressed primarily in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.

True

False

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is defined as state laws that authorize the police to require a citizen subjected to a stop and frisk to present identification.

The king’s law

Standard law

Stop-and-identify statutes

None of these

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Stop-and-identify statutes

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Vindictive prosecution occurs when an individual is charged with an offense but there is not probable cause to support the charge.

True

False

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: False

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Police officers may be sued under state law for committing a tort (civil wrong) against an individual.

True

False

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: True

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In cases of serious offenses, the accused are guaranteed a trial before a judge and not a jury.

True

False

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: False

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Is speedy trial sixth Amendment right to a trial without unreasonable delay?

False

True

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is defined as rule that evidence that is obtained as a result of a violation of the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is inadmissible in a criminal prosecution to establish a defendant’s guilt.

As soon as an individual becomes the focus of an investigation

None of these

Exclusionary rule

Before any questions are asked of the suspect

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Exclusionary rule

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_____ is defined as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee individuals due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause incorporates most of the protections of the Bill of Rights.

FISA

All of these

The Halsted Act

Due Process Clause

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Due Process Clause

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_____ is requirement that a warrant be specific in regard to the objects to be seized and the place to be searched.

Particularity requirement

The right to counsel attaches at all of these

Showups

None of these

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Particularity requirement

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Is discretion the exercise of judgment by a decision maker in the criminal justice system?

True

False

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: True

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MCQ on Basic Criminal Procedure (U.S.)	MCQ on Constitutional Violations
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MCQ on Eyewitness and Scientific Identifications	MCQ on Inspections and Regulatory Searches
MCQ on Interrogations and Confessions	MCQ on Probable Cause and Arrests
MCQ on Searches and Seizures	MCQ on Searches and Seizures of Property
MCQ on Sentencing and Appeals	MCQ on Stop and Frisk
MCQ on The Exclusionary Rule and Entrapment	MCQ on The Initiation of the Legal Process, Bail, and the Right to Counsel
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