MPTC Final Exam Review Questions with Complete Solutions 100% Verified Correct Answers 1st Amendment - Correct Answers Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition 4th Amendment - Correct Answers Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government 5th Amendment - Correct Answers The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due process 8th Amendment - Correct Answers No excessive bail, or cruel and unusual punishment Civil Liability - Correct Answers Potential responsibility for payment of damages or other court- imposed sanction in a lawsuit. (You can be sued for violating a persons constitutional rights).Jurisdiction - Correct Answers The specific geographical area where a police officer can arrest or serve (provided that they are in uniform or displaying a badge of office).Reasonable Suspicion - Correct Answers Specific articulable facts which, when taken together, would convince a reasonable person to believe that a suspect is involved in a crime.Probable Cause - Correct Answers Facts and circumstances sufficient to convince a reasonable
person to believe that:
- A crime has been committed and that the person to be arrested committed it.
- A specific item subject to seizure will be found
Seizure - Correct Answers When police take possession of property, make an arrest, or restrict a persons ability to move freely.Search - Correct Answers The physical invasion or intrusions of privacy by police on people, homes or personal property to obtain information or gather evidence.Frisk - Correct Answers A warrantless and limited search of a persons outer garments and area of control by police to discover weapons. 1 / 2
Arrest Warrant Requirements - Correct Answers 1. Name of person to be arrested
- The crime allegedly committed by person named
- A command that the person named in the warrant be brought before the court
- Signature of the official issuing the warrant.
- A crime committed in the officer's presence that amounts to a breach of the peace.
- Certain misdemeanors committed in the past when arrest is authorized by statute.
- Certain misdemeanors committed in an officer's presence
Arrest without a warrant - Correct Answers A) for a felony in the officer's presence or with probable cause
Search incident to arrest - Correct Answers A search of a person and their area of control after arrest looking for fruits, instrumentalities, and evidence of the crime for which they have been arrested.Consent search - Correct Answers When a person waives their 4th amendment rights for officers to search places where the person consenting has a reasonable expectation of privacy. CONSENT MUST
BE VOLUTARY AND INFORMED!
Plain View Doctrine - Correct Answers Police may seize evidence of a crime without a warrant that is in plain view and no reasonable expectation of privacy exists.Curtilage - Correct Answers The area immediately surrounding a dwelling Exigent Circumstances - Correct Answers Exigent circumstance exist when there is probable cause
and:
- Likelihood of danger to police or other without immediate action.
- Likelihood of imminent removal or destruction of evidence
- Risk of flight.
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Inventories - Correct Answers Administrative, non investigatory searches pursuant to written departmental procedures and justified as a means of protecting property.Citizen arrest - Correct Answers A private citizen may lawfully arrest someone who has in fact already committed a felony.