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10 Cards in this Set
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LEGAL ARREST |
An arrest is using legal authority to deprive a person of his or her freedom of movement. An arrest is generally made with an arrest warrant. An arrest may be made without a warrant if probable cause and exigent circumstances are presented at the time of the arrest. |
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EXCLUSIONARY RULE |
a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial. |
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LEGAL SEARCH WARRANTS |
A judge issues a search warrant to authorize law enforcement officers to search a particular location and seize specific items. To obtain a search warrant, police must show probable cause that a crime was committed and that items connected to the crime are likely to be found in the place specified by the warrant. |
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CUSTODIAL INTERROGATION |
In United States criminal law, a custodial interrogation (or, generally, custodialsituation) is a situation in which the suspect's freedom of movement is restrained, even if he is not under arrest. |
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"TERRY" STOPS |
In the United States, a Terry stop is 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 |
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 |
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 |
Reasonable suspicion 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 unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch'" |
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ILLINOIS V WARDLOW |
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. |
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SEARCH INCIDENT TO ARREST |
the scope of a warrantless search must be strictly tied to and justified by the circumstances which rendered its justification permissible, and since it was the rule that the justification of a search of the arrestee was to prevent destruction of evidence and to prevent access to a weapon |
