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SCCJA LEGALS 1 Exam Questions With
100% Verified Answers |2025
Description requirement for search warrant - Correct-answer-Particular
description, place/person/thing to be searched
Additional procedural requirements for search warrant - Correct-answer-Any
magistrate, What can be seized, Where it can be seized, Affidavit, Return, Time
limits
What can be seized - Correct-answer-stolen property, unlawful prop, prop used
for crime, prop as evidence of crime, illegal drugs
Time limit for search warrant - Correct-answer-executed ASAP, returned within 10
days
What happens after search complete? - Correct-answer-officers inventory seized
items, leave receipt with occupants, return the warrant with inventory to
magistrate
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Administrative matters for search - Correct-answer-secure premises, document
damage, handling of money, plain view seizure
Knock and announce requirements - Correct-answer-announce identity and
purpose, allow delay to respond, only use force that's reasonable and sufficient
Exceptions to knock and announce - Correct-answer-when dangerous / would
result in destruction of evidence
State v. Valentine - Correct-answer-officers can use deception to execute warrant
under special circumstances
Wilson Layne - Correct-answer-no 3rd parties in search
officers authority to control persons at premises for search warrant - Correct-
answer-Can control movement inside, frisk for weapons if reasonable suspicion.
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Ybarra v. Illinois - Correct-answer-officers cannot patdown individuals that aren't
listed on search warrant without reasonable belief
scope of search - Correct-answer-all places where evidence can be concealed, but
search stops when items are found
Illinois v. McArthur - Correct-answer-officers had PC to believe McArthur had pot
in home, prevented him from entering for 2 hrs until search warrant obtained -
legal
Property-based approach - Correct-answer-Until 1967, SC used this involving
common law trespass. If government occupied property to get info, it was a
search. Boyd v. US
Privacy-based approach - Correct-answer-Katz v US decided that the amendment
protected people, not places or things. New standard that required defendant to
prove reasonable expectation of privacy
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Standard for valid privacy based search - Correct-answer-search must be
reasonable
Test of reasonableness for privacy based search - Correct-answer-balancing
government's interest in search against intrusion
curtilage - Correct-answer-area around house has privacy US v. Dunn
open fields - Correct-answer-Hester v. US says 4th amendment not applicable to
open fields
Oliver v. US says warrant and PC not needed for undeveloped areas
what is a search under 4th? - Correct-answer-government intrusion on person's
reasonable expectation of privacy OR government physical intrusion to get info
Officer's ordinary sensory perception - Correct-answer-anything evident to
senses, as long as they're in a place where they have a right to be
SCCJA LEGALS 1 Exam Questions With
100% Verified Answers |2025
Description requirement for search warrant - Correct-answer-Particular
description, place/person/thing to be searched
Additional procedural requirements for search warrant - Correct-answer-Any
magistrate, What can be seized, Where it can be seized, Affidavit, Return, Time
limits
What can be seized - Correct-answer-stolen property, unlawful prop, prop used
for crime, prop as evidence of crime, illegal drugs
Time limit for search warrant - Correct-answer-executed ASAP, returned within 10
days
What happens after search complete? - Correct-answer-officers inventory seized
items, leave receipt with occupants, return the warrant with inventory to
magistrate
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Administrative matters for search - Correct-answer-secure premises, document
damage, handling of money, plain view seizure
Knock and announce requirements - Correct-answer-announce identity and
purpose, allow delay to respond, only use force that's reasonable and sufficient
Exceptions to knock and announce - Correct-answer-when dangerous / would
result in destruction of evidence
State v. Valentine - Correct-answer-officers can use deception to execute warrant
under special circumstances
Wilson Layne - Correct-answer-no 3rd parties in search
officers authority to control persons at premises for search warrant - Correct-
answer-Can control movement inside, frisk for weapons if reasonable suspicion.
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Ybarra v. Illinois - Correct-answer-officers cannot patdown individuals that aren't
listed on search warrant without reasonable belief
scope of search - Correct-answer-all places where evidence can be concealed, but
search stops when items are found
Illinois v. McArthur - Correct-answer-officers had PC to believe McArthur had pot
in home, prevented him from entering for 2 hrs until search warrant obtained -
legal
Property-based approach - Correct-answer-Until 1967, SC used this involving
common law trespass. If government occupied property to get info, it was a
search. Boyd v. US
Privacy-based approach - Correct-answer-Katz v US decided that the amendment
protected people, not places or things. New standard that required defendant to
prove reasonable expectation of privacy
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Standard for valid privacy based search - Correct-answer-search must be
reasonable
Test of reasonableness for privacy based search - Correct-answer-balancing
government's interest in search against intrusion
curtilage - Correct-answer-area around house has privacy US v. Dunn
open fields - Correct-answer-Hester v. US says 4th amendment not applicable to
open fields
Oliver v. US says warrant and PC not needed for undeveloped areas
what is a search under 4th? - Correct-answer-government intrusion on person's
reasonable expectation of privacy OR government physical intrusion to get info
Officer's ordinary sensory perception - Correct-answer-anything evident to
senses, as long as they're in a place where they have a right to be
