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Legal Arrest
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The intentional deprivation, whether actual or constructive, of a person's freedom by legal authorities using forcible restraint seizure, otherwise taking the individuals into custody, especially in responds to a warrant or a suspicion based on probable cause that the person being arrested has a committed crime. |
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Exclusionary rule
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Prevents the government from preventing evidence in trial which was gathered in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protection against illegal search and seizure.
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Legal search warrants
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is a court order that a magistrate, judge or Supreme Court official issues to authorize law enforcement officers to conduct a search of a person, location, or vehicle for evidence of a crime and to confiscate any evidence they find.
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Custodial interrogation
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Questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his or her freedom in any significant way, thus requiring that the person be advised of his or her applicable constitutional rights
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"Terry Stops"
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a brief detention of a person by police on reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal activity but short of probable cause to arrest
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Belton rule
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New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that when a police officer has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, the officer may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile.
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Seizure
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In Criminal law, a seizure is the forcible taking of property by a government law enforcement official from a person who is suspected of violating, or is known to have violated, the law
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Reasonable suspicion
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is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and un-particularized suspicion or 'hunch'"; it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts", and the suspicion must be associated with the specific individual.
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Illinois V. Wardlow
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528 U.S. 119 (2000), is a case decided before the United States Supreme Court involving U.S. criminal procedure regarding searches and seizures.
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Search Incident to a lawful arrest
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commonly known as search incident to arrest (SITA) or the Chimel rule, is a legal principle that allows police to perform a warrantless search of an arrested person, and the area within the arrestee’s immediate control, in the interest of officer safety, the prevention of escape, and the destruction of evidence
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