- If the police mistakingly arrest you, you should do everything possible to get away from the officer.
- A law enforcement officer may stop a person for a reasonable period of time to question the person and get identification on the basis of a reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in criminal activity.
- The Constitution does not protect people against invasions of their privacy by private individuals.
- The correct order of events in the criminal process, assuming that the defendant ends up having a jury trial, are: charges brought, pretrial motions, booking, arraignment, jury selection, initial appearance, and arrest.
- If you did commit the crime that you are charged with, you should not tell your lawyer about what you did.
- The most independent way to handle complaints about police is though an internal affairs unit.
- Police officers who have been issued a warrant to search a one may go immediately to the home, walk through the front door and search.
- Police can never lawfully use race as a a factor in deciding who to stop and question for wrongdoing.
- Probable cause to arrest means having a reasonable belief that a specific person has committed a crime.
- Law enforcement may establish probable cause based on information given by informants if the information is reliable and if the information can be corroborated.
- Officers who have a reasonable suspicion that a person is armed and dangerous may do a limited pat-down of the person's outer clothes for weapons.
- There is an explicit right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution.
- Arrest warrants are required in order to make an arrest.
- An arrest is not a seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
- Evidence that was illegally obtained cannot be used against a defendant at trial to prove the defendant guilty.
- Police officers are not liable for false arrest simply because the person they arrested did not commit the crime.
- It is a frequent occurrence for police to use deadly force.
- Criminal defendants may be freed at one of many points throughout the criminal justice process.
- Federal and state investigations of crime use the same procedures.
- Crystals that are ____________ produce two planes of polarized light, each perpendicular to the other.