Chapter 7 Retake

What is the importance of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• It extends constitutional protections to state-level criminal justice.
• It creates exceptions to the protections provided in the Bill of Rights.
• It places the need to ensure public safety above the need to protect individual rights.
• It requires police to advise suspects of their rights using the Miranda warnings.

According to ________, evidence illegally seized by the police cannot be used in a trial.

• the exclusionary rule
• the Fifth Amendment
• Miranda v. Arizona
• the Sixth Amendment

A writ of certiorari ________.

• asks the court to free somebody who has been wrongfully convicted
• identifies probable cause for the court to issue an arrest warrant
• allows officers to search a suspect’s home
• allows appellate courts to review the record of a lower court case

Which Supreme Court ruling applied the exclusionary rule to the states?

• Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. U.S.
• Weeks v. U.S.
• U.S. v. Leon
• Mapp v. Ohio

According to the Supreme Court, in a search incident to arrest, where are the police permitted to search without a search warrant?

• The police may search the entire building in which the arrest occurred.
• The police may only search the area in the arrestee’s immediate control.
• The police may only search the arrestee.
• The police may not conduct a search without a warrant.

According to the Supreme Court, the police may conduct a "stop and frisk" without a warrant based on ________.

• preponderance of evidence
• reasonable suspicion
• probable cause
• totality of the circumstances

The ________ exception to the exclusionary rule allows police to conduct warrantless searches of a vehicle.

• fleeing-targets
• plain view
• good faith
• reasonable suspicion

What legal concept provides a basis for a suspicionless search when public safety is at stake?

• Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine
• Reasonable suspicion
• Probable cause
• Compelling interest

Which of the following fits the definition of interrogation, according to the Supreme Court?

• A police officer questions a witness at the scene of a crime.
• A police officer gives a suspect some instructions during booking.
• A police officer places a suspect into a lineup.
• A police officer gives a suspect his Miranda warning before conducting a search of the immediate area.

In Escobedo v. Illinois, the Supreme Court formally recognized a suspect’s right to have an attorney present ________.

• at trial
• at an arraignment
• during interrogation
• upon arrest