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The intentional deprivation of a person's freedom by legal authorities using forcible restraint, seizure, or in response to a warrant or a suspicion based on probable cause that the person being arrested has committed a crime.
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Legal Arrest |
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To prevent police orgovernment misconduct. It prohibits evidence obtained in violation of aperson's constitutional rights from being admissible in court. |
Exclusionary Rule |
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A legal document authorizing a police officer or other official to enterand search premises.
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Legal Search Warrant |
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Questioning by law enforcement officers after a person has been takeninto custody or otherwise deprived of freedom of action in any significant way. |
Custodial Interrogation |
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An officer with reasonable suspicion may conduct a briefinvestigatory stop, including a pat down for weapons if the officer for the officer's protection. |
"Terry" Stops |
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Police do not need a warrant tosearch a suspect when he or she is placed under lawful arrest. Any area underthe person's immediate control, the passengercompartment of a vehicle may be searched. |
Belton Rule |
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Law enforcement taking contraband for evidence of a crime. |
Seizure |
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Police officer's hunch or intuition, based on observedunusual conduct, which leads him reasonably to conclude that criminal activitymight committed. |
Reasonable Suspicion |
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Reasonable suspicion justifying a Terry stop is met in this situation. Determination of reasonable suspicion has to be based on commonsense inferences about human behavior, and officers are justified in suspecting that defendant was involved in criminal activity based on his flight and the fact that he was in a high crime area. |
Illinois v. Wardlow (2000) |
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After a person has been lawfully been taken into custody by a policeofficer, U.S. law recognizes the necessity of permitting a complete search.First, officer safety requires that any weapon on or near the defendant belocated. Second, any evidence or other contraband should be recovered. |
Search Incident to a Lawful Arrest |
