TCOLE Arrest, Search, and Seizure FINAL EXAM PREP
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Abandoned Property .......Answer.........When property is
abandoned, no one has any further privacy right in it and it may
be seized by LEOs without probable cause or a search warrant.
Administrative Search .......Answer.........An inspection or search
carried out under a regulatory or statutory scheme esp. in public
or commercial premises and usually to enforce compliance with
regulations or laws pertaining to health, safety, or security.
Consent Search .......Answer.........A warrantless search conducted
upon the voluntarily given consent of a person having authority
over the place or thing to be searched.
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Inventory Search .......Answer.........A warrantless search
conducted for the purpose of placing personal property in
safekeeping to prevent loss of the property and claims against
police for such loss.
Protective Search/Sweep .......Answer.........A search conducted
by a law enforcement officer for the purpose of ensuring
against threats to safety or sometimes to prevent the destruction
of evidence.
Components of search warrant .......Answer.........Affidavit
Search Warrant
Return
Three Cardinal Rules of preparing search warrant affidavits:
.......Answer.........Be brief
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Be specific
Be persuasive
Three classifications of interactions between peace officers and
person: .......Answer.........Consensual Encounters
Investigatory Stops/Detention
Arrest
Peace officers are free to approach and ask questions of
persons so long as officers recognize that those persons can
refuse to identify themselves, refuse to cooperate, refuse to
answer questions, and simply walk all is thanks to which case?
.......Answer.........Florida vs Royer
What is a consensual encounter? .......Answer.........Police officers
are free to approach and ask questions of persons so long as
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officers recognize that those persons can refuse to identify
themselves, refuse to cooperate, refuse to answer questions, and
simply walk away
What is Investigatory Stops or Detention? .......Answer.........The
temporary seizure of a person for investigation base on an
officer's reasonable suspicion of criminal activity
Which case has to do with taking a person into custody for
purposes of charging them with a crime based on as officer's
establishment of probable cause? .......Answer.........US vs
Mendenhall
a peace officer's purpose or intention to take a person into the
custody of the law .......Answer.........intent
the officer is authorized by law to make an arrest and the arrest
is supported by probable cause .......Answer.........authority