Verified Answers
/. Which of the following parts of the Fourth Amendment would be used by a police
officer to gather evidence in a criminal matter?
a. Seizure
b. Probable cause
c. Search
d. Justification - Answer-✅B
/.Which of the following pertains to taking private property in a criminal investigation?
a. Seizure
b. Probable cause
c. Search
d.Justification - Answer-✅A
/.As a police officer in an investigation, you need to enter a certain house in which you
suspect you will find evidence of a crime. What do you need to be sure you follow in
order to gain evidence correctly?
a. Administrative justification
b. Miranda rights
c. Fourth Amendment
d. State Supreme Court - Answer-✅C
/.Which of the following is characterized as the focus of a court's examination of the
reasonableness of a search or seizure?
a. Probable cause
b. Seizure
c. Reasonable suspicion
d. Justification - Answer-✅D
/.You see a person hastily throw something away in a trashcan when he or she saw a
police officer walking toward him or her. After you tell the police officer this, he reaches
in the bag you saw and finds a gun. He then goes up to the person you saw throw it
away and conducts a search. What does the finding of the gun signify to the court?
a. The reasonableness of the search
b. An illegal search
, c. Reasonable expectation of privacy
d. Administrative justification - Answer-✅A
/.You pass a home that has a marijuana plant in a hanging planter on the deck. As a
police officer, you stop and seize it, arresting the occupants of the home. They argue
that Katz prevents you from doing so. What would be the ruling?
a. The home is a physical location and is protected.
b. A home has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
c. The owners were in the home and were covered as protected persons.
d. A plant on a deck is knowingly exposed to the public. - Answer-✅D
/.Which of the following would be characterized as meaningful interference with an
individual's possessory interest in that property?
a. Search
b. Seizure
c. Probable cause
d. Reasonable suspicion - Answer-✅B
/.You are in a strange neighborhood, and a police officer drive by. He can clearly see
that you do not know the neighborhood and are not from there. He stops you and frisks
you because he just had a report of someone who looked like you with a knife. What
level of justification did the officer use?
a. Probable cause
b. Search and seizure
c. Reasonable suspicion
d. Administrative justification - Answer-✅C
/.A suspect is running away from a police officer and runs into another one blocking his
way out of an alley. What could this be considered?
a. Search
b. Seizure
c. Justification
d. Reasonableness - Answer-✅C
/.Which of the following would meet criteria for reasonable suspicion?
a. Less than probable cause, but more than preponderance of the evidence.
b. Less than preponderance of the evidence, but more than administrative justification.
c. Less than administrative justification, but more than hunch.
d. Less than proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but more than probable cause. -
Answer-✅B
/.Which of the following would require the civil equivalent of probable cause?
a. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt
b. Preponderance of the evidence
c. Reasonable suspicion