Durham BLET Laws and Procedure II Study Questions with correct answers

An employee of UPS while driving a company truck in the course of employment is stopped by a law enforcement officer. After determiming that the driver is carrying a certain wrapped package to deliver, the officer may rely on the driver's consent to search the package. - Answer False The activities of three men at a neighborhood grocery store arouse the suspicions of a store clerk because they seem only to be stalling and watching the other customers in the store. The clerk calls the local law enforcement agency and an officer arrives at the store while the three men are still there. Upon approaching the men to ask what they are doing in the store, the officer may immediately conduct a pat down search. - Answer False A tenant rents an apartment from a landlady who has regularly accepted late rental payments from the tenant without complaint. One month, when the rent is overdue, the landlady asks officiers to search the apartment. They may do so without a warrant. - Answer False Two Officiers have obtained a search warrant to search a cafe because they have probable cause to beleive that the owner is running an illegal booking operation. In executing the search warrant, the officiers may automatically detain all of the patrons at the cafe. - Answer False - Not all patrons; only those named in the warrant An officier stops a driver for speeding and subsequently arrests her for driving while license revoked. Although the officier has handcuffs and a patrol vehicle available, the officier could leave the arrestee unsecured and near the vehicle in order to justify a search of her vehicle incident to arrest. - Answer False - Only if unsecured and reasonable suspicion; can't purposely leave them unsecured. An officier approaches a man sitting in his car and arrests him on an outstanding warrant for embezzelement committed six mo