Searches, Seizures, and Statements MCQs
Searches, Seizures, and Statements MCQs
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1: The fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
A. True
B. False
2: Search warrants are always required for police officers to be permitted to search an individual’s house.
A. True
B. False
3: To seek a search warrant, an investigator submits a statement of probable cause, known as the application, or ______, to a judge where he articulates all of the facts known to him at the time that forms this belief about a crime and why the place or person to be searched may have evidence of the crime.
A. Indictment
B. Petition
C. Plea
D. Affidavit
4: Which of these is NOT an exception to the search warrant requirement?
A. Consent
B. Hot pursuit
C. Emergency
D. Stop and frisk
5: In which U.S. Supreme Court case did they determine that the police could search immediate area within the immediate control or arms reach of an arrestee was the area that a person might hide evidence or reach for a weapon?
A. Miranda v. Arizona
B. California v. Greenwood
C. Chimel v. California
D. Graham v. Connor
6: In order for consent to be used it must be ______.
A. Written
B. Willing
C. Coerced
D. Voluntary
7: For the plain view exception to apply ______.
A. The item must be immediately recognizable
B. No further search is required
C. The officer must be asked in by the resident
D. A and b
8: In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that sobriety checkpoint stops are seizures under the Fourth Amendment but that the brief nature of the stops made them acceptable.
A. United States v. Martinez-Fuerte
B. Maryland v. Buie
C. Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz
D. Oliver v. United States
9: The police can search a vehicle incident to their arrest (including the passenger compartment) as a result of this case.
A. Thornton v. United States
B. Saucier v. Katz
C. Chimel v. California
D. New York v. Belton
10: The 1966 landmark Supreme Court decision in ______ established the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination.
A. Frazier v. Cupp
B. Brown v. Mississippi
C. Chimel v. California
D. Miranda v. Arizona
11: _____ is known as a spontaneous comment or statement by someone as a reaction to a startling or shocking circumstance. Usually an exception to the hearsay rule
A. Excited utterance
B. Unknown
C. Matched
D. All of these
12: Is exclusionary rule prohibits the use at trial of evidence that was not obtained legally. ?
A. True
B. False
13: _____ is may justify law enforcement entering a building without permission if people are in danger, evidence is at risk of imminent destruction, or if a suspect may escape.
A. Exigent circumstances
B. Right to apply for compensation
C. Right to speedy trial
D. All of these
14: _____ is defined as to the U.S. Constitution: enumerates certain rights such as the right against self-incrimination, the right to due process, and the protection against being tried twice for the same crime.
A. Fifth Amendment
B. Significantly decreased
C. Decreased slightly
D. All of these
15: _____ is known as to the U.S. Constitution: prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
A. Fourth Amendment
B. Sequential Lineup
C. Simultaneous Lineup
D. All of these
16: Is good faith exception when faced with the potential blocking of evidence due to the Exclusionary Rule, if officers relied on a search warrant they believed to be valid, evidence seized illegally may be admitted by the court. ?
A. True
B. False
17: _____ is a presentation of the suspect and filler individuals all at once or one after the other for a witness or victim to identify the offender.
A. Lineup
B. FBI
C. NBI
D. All of these
18: _____ is defined as if, during a pat-down, an officer feels something that he can immediately identify such as a weapon, the officer may confiscate or seize the object.
A. Plain feel exception
B. Investigation
C. Remand
D. None of these
19: _____ is known as if an officer is in a location he may legally be in, and sees something he recognizes as evidence, he may seize it.
A. Plain view
B. Nonverbal
C. Both
D. All of these
20: Is probable cause the level of information needed for a court to issue a warrant, for an officer to conduct certain searches or arrests, and the standard for a grand jury indictment. ?
A. True
B. False
21: _____ is lower standard of proof than probable cause based on specific and articulable facts.
A. Reasonable suspicion
B. Valid
C. None
D. All of these
22: _____ is defined as court order authorizing law enforcement to search a particular person, place, or vehicle for evidence of a specific crime.
A. Search warrant
B. Predicting
C. Suggesting
D. None of these
23: _____ is known as viewing a suspect by a victim or witness within minutes of a crime. Also known as a field identification.
A. Showup
B. Second degree
C. Third degree
D. None of these
24: Is sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: guarantees the right of a speedy trial, an attorney to represent the accused, the ability to face one’s accusers, and the selection of a jury of one’s peers, among other protections. ?
A. True
B. False
25: _____ is temporarily detain a person and pat-down their outer clothing for the presence of weapons.
A. Stop and frisk
B. Persuaded
C. Voluntary
D. None of these
26: _____ is defined as usually refers to the initial procedure of selecting jurors for a trial.
A. Voir dire
B. In custody
C. Prior to interrogation
D. All of these
27: _____ is known as permission by the person with proper authority to control property to allow the search of that property.
A. Voluntary consent
B. Code Adam
C. Graffiti
D. All of these
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