4th Amendment - Probable Cause & Reasonable Limits

A paid informant tells the police you are carrying drugs in your backpack. The police arrest you and search your backpack. They find drugs.

Did the police have probable cause to stop you and conduct a search?

• Yes

• No

A paid informant tells the police you are carrying drugs in your backpack. The police arrest you and search your backpack. They find drugs.

Is the search of your backpack reasonably limited?

• Yes

• No

A paid informant tells the police you are carrying drugs in your backpack. The police arrest you and search your backpack. They find drugs in your backpack.

Do the police have probable cause to then seach your house?

• Yes

• No

A paid informant tells the police you are carrying drugs in your backpack. The police arrest you and search your backpack. They find drugs in your backpack.

Is a search of your house, without a warrant, reasonably limited?

• Yes

• No

The police are chasing a person they saw steal a purse. The suspect runs into the house. The police follow them into the house.

Did the police have probable cause to enter the house?

• Yes

• No

The police are chasing a person they saw steal a purse. The suspect runs into the house. The police follow them into the house. The police search for the suspect in rooms and closets.

Is the police search of the rooms and closets for the purse thief reasonably limited?

• Yes

• No

The police are chasing a person they saw steal a purse. The suspect runs into the house. The police follow them into the house. The police search in drawers in the bedrooms and kitchen for the suspect.

Is the police search of the drawers for the purse thief reasonably limited?

• Yes

• No

A police officer sees 3 men acting suspicious. The men keep looking in the window of a store. The police officer stops the men and searches the outside of their clothes by patting them down.

Does the police officer have probable cause to stop the men?

• Yes

• No

A police officer sees 3 men acting suspicious. The men keep looking in the window of a store. The police officer stops the men and searches the outside of their clothes by patting them down.

Is the search of the outside of their clothes reasonably limited?

• Yes

• No

A police officer sees 3 men acting suspicious. The men keep looking in the window of a store. The police officer stops the men. She takes a backpack from one of them, opens the closed pockets, and searches the backpack.

Is the search of the backpack reasonably limited?

• Yes

• No