CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS,
GOOD SCORE IS GUARANTEED |GRADE A+
Tests for relevant probable cause –
✔ - Credibility of source, basis of knowledge, and totality of circumstances
Probable Cause that needs corroboration –
✔ - Anonymous sources, confidential informants
Ways to corroborate PC sources –
✔ - 1st hand info, previous reliability, predictable info, statements against interest, degree of
detachment
Makes PC reliable –
✔ - Timeliness, how long ago was the info obtained?
Helps corroborate PC –
✔ - Who, what, when, where, how?
Exclusionary Rule –
✔ - Evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment is not admissible in court (Fruit of the
poisonous tree)
Exclusionary Rule exceptions –
✔ - Standing, Good Faith, Inevitable discovery, impeachment, and foreign searches
, UPTP EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS,
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Standing –
✔ - Only the defendant with violated 4th rights can benefit, must be proven with REP
Good faith –
✔ - Only applies when an officer reasonably relies on a mistake made by someone else
Inevitable discovery –
✔ - Government proves they would have found the evidence anyway, no need to suppress it
because it would have been found anyway
Impeachment –
✔ - When defendants choose to testify, they must testify truthfully or suffer the consequences
Foreign searches –
✔ - 4th does not apply to a foreign search as long as it was not solicited by USA
How do you obtain an arrest warrant? –
✔ - Complaint, information, indictment
Complaint –
✔ - Probable cause from a LEO
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CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS,
GOOD SCORE IS GUARANTEED |GRADE A+
Information –
✔ - Probable cause from a US attorney
Indictment –
✔ - Probable cause from Grand Jury charges
Who does the 4th amendment apply to? –
✔ - The government when a search is conducted
Who is the government in relation to the 4th amendment? –
✔ - Cops, agents, undercover agents, and confidential informants. Citizens acting as an
instrument or agent of the government or under the direction of a government agent
What can be searched? –
✔ - Persons, dwellings, papers, and effects
Does the 4th apply to private citizens? –
✔ - No
Who is not the government? –
✔ - Private citizens, parents, significant others, nosy neighbors, hotel maids, delivery services,
foreign LEOs overseas, and others unconnected to the government