CP Final Exam with comprehensive Questions and Answers
To do a body cavity search at an international border, which of the following is
needed?✔️✔️Probable cause
In Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001), involving state hospital obstetric patients who were
arrested for child abuse after testing positive for cocaine while pregnant, SCOTUS decided that
the searches:✔️✔️Did violate the Fourth Amendment, because they were warrantless,
suspicionless, and nonconsensual
In Norris v. Premier Integrity Solutions, Inc. (2011), the Sixth Circuit Court held that certain
individuals had a diminished expectation of privacy. To which type of individual did the court
refer?✔️✔️A pre-trial detainee who has consented to drug testing
In building probable cause, police officers may rely on what they:✔️✔️See, hear, smell, and taste
Although SCOTUS has not ruled on this issue, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld
Georgia's statute, which requires mandatory testing and storage of DNA for what
population?✔️✔️Incarcerated felons
What legal doctrine states that school officials are substitute parents when students are in
school?✔️✔️In loco parentis
Special needs searches include all of the following characteristics, except:✔️✔️Their
reasonableness depends entirely on protecting invasions of individual privacy
Which of the following cases involved the use of a taser?✔️✔️Estate of Ronald Armstrong v.
Village of Pinehurst (2016)
New York v. Belton (1981) extended the Chimel rule to:✔️✔️Interior vehicle searches, if the
individual arrested is outside the car
, T/F: The Fourth Amendment doesn't condemn all searches, only "unreasonable"
searches.✔️✔️True
Which of the following is not a requirement for obtaining a warrant to arrest a suspect at
home?✔️✔️The suspect's criminal history
Police ordinarily seek consent to search✔️✔️When they do not have probable cause and cannot
get a warrant.
T/F: The scope of a search incident to arrest includes the entire place where the suspect is
arrested.✔️✔️False
A batch of letter-sized airmail envelopes-from a country well-known as a source of narcotics-that
are bulky and much heavier than ordinary airmail letters, are stopped at the Post Office in New
York. A U.S. Customs Inspector opens the letters and finds heroin. No search warrant was
sought. Would this be considered an illegal search and seizure?✔️✔️No, because it constitutes a
"border search" and anything crossing the border falls within this exception.
What is the name of an emergency created by the need to pursue a fleeing suspect?✔️✔️Hot
pursuit
Consent that takes place when one person in fact has the legal authority to consent to a search of
the home and possessions of another person is called:✔️✔️Actual authority consent
In Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995), SCOTUS found that random (without
individualized suspicion) drug testing of:✔️✔️All students voluntarily participating in the school
district's athletic programs was reasonable
T/F: In Draper v. United States, SCOTUS determined that information that may not be
admissible at trial to prove guilt could still be used to establish probable cause.✔️✔️True
To do a body cavity search at an international border, which of the following is
needed?✔️✔️Probable cause
In Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001), involving state hospital obstetric patients who were
arrested for child abuse after testing positive for cocaine while pregnant, SCOTUS decided that
the searches:✔️✔️Did violate the Fourth Amendment, because they were warrantless,
suspicionless, and nonconsensual
In Norris v. Premier Integrity Solutions, Inc. (2011), the Sixth Circuit Court held that certain
individuals had a diminished expectation of privacy. To which type of individual did the court
refer?✔️✔️A pre-trial detainee who has consented to drug testing
In building probable cause, police officers may rely on what they:✔️✔️See, hear, smell, and taste
Although SCOTUS has not ruled on this issue, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld
Georgia's statute, which requires mandatory testing and storage of DNA for what
population?✔️✔️Incarcerated felons
What legal doctrine states that school officials are substitute parents when students are in
school?✔️✔️In loco parentis
Special needs searches include all of the following characteristics, except:✔️✔️Their
reasonableness depends entirely on protecting invasions of individual privacy
Which of the following cases involved the use of a taser?✔️✔️Estate of Ronald Armstrong v.
Village of Pinehurst (2016)
New York v. Belton (1981) extended the Chimel rule to:✔️✔️Interior vehicle searches, if the
individual arrested is outside the car
, T/F: The Fourth Amendment doesn't condemn all searches, only "unreasonable"
searches.✔️✔️True
Which of the following is not a requirement for obtaining a warrant to arrest a suspect at
home?✔️✔️The suspect's criminal history
Police ordinarily seek consent to search✔️✔️When they do not have probable cause and cannot
get a warrant.
T/F: The scope of a search incident to arrest includes the entire place where the suspect is
arrested.✔️✔️False
A batch of letter-sized airmail envelopes-from a country well-known as a source of narcotics-that
are bulky and much heavier than ordinary airmail letters, are stopped at the Post Office in New
York. A U.S. Customs Inspector opens the letters and finds heroin. No search warrant was
sought. Would this be considered an illegal search and seizure?✔️✔️No, because it constitutes a
"border search" and anything crossing the border falls within this exception.
What is the name of an emergency created by the need to pursue a fleeing suspect?✔️✔️Hot
pursuit
Consent that takes place when one person in fact has the legal authority to consent to a search of
the home and possessions of another person is called:✔️✔️Actual authority consent
In Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995), SCOTUS found that random (without
individualized suspicion) drug testing of:✔️✔️All students voluntarily participating in the school
district's athletic programs was reasonable
T/F: In Draper v. United States, SCOTUS determined that information that may not be
admissible at trial to prove guilt could still be used to establish probable cause.✔️✔️True
