criminal procedure Final Flashcards

Administrative search warrant

Routine inspections (police do not conduct them)

Criminal search warrant

When the administrative search person finds something criminal

4 elements to an arrest

1. Purpose or intention
2. Exercise of real or pretended authority
3. Physical force or submission
4. Understanding

Real authority

(Sworn officers) Legal right to make an arrest

2 types of force

1. Non deadly - pepper spray , take down
2. Deadly force - life in danger (officer or people)

Bite and hold

Technique to stop someone until officer is able to make an arrest

Search incident to arrest

Chimel Vs. California 1969 have the right to search you and areas
around you

Police dogs

Fall under the 4th amendment

Non Intrusive search

Hair samples and finger nail clippings

Intrusive searches

Blood samples , strip searches

Tantamount to arrest

Purpose is to question

Protective sweep

Allowed to do a small search to make sure there are no weapons that
came harm

Terry Vs. Ohio

Creation of the stop and frisk ( reasonable suspicion standard was
established )

Frisk

Brief pat down

4 requirements to determine seizure stops

1. Free to leave test: common sense
2. Free to decline request or terminate
3. Intentionally applied: based on physical control
4. Halting or submission: legally stopped

Consent

Is voluntary

What do you need to do stop and frisk?

Reasonable suspicion

Citizens Arrest

Can make arrest if they establish probably cause
Security guards, private citizens, law enforcement officers
outside of their jurisdiction

Resisting Arrest

Interfering with police officer after taking on the duty to put a
person in custody
1. Immediate threat
2. Active resisting arrest

Search incident to arrest

1. Lawful custodial arrest
2. Contemporaneous

Who may give consent?

1. Actual Common Authority - has legal capacity to grant consent
(Husband, Wife)
2. Apparent Common Authority - Reasonable belief (Girlfriend, Boyfriend)

Plain View Doctrine

Allows you to confiscate something although you had no knowledge of
it being there
1. Valid Justification
2. Probable cause

Carroll Doctrine

Search of a readily mobile motor vehicle by law enforcement who has
probable cause
1. Probable cause
2. Vehicle must be readily mobile

Miranda Vs. Arizona

5th Amendment - Custodial Interrogation
1. Express Waiver
2. Implied Waiver
CAN WAVE 5TH AND 6TH RIGHT

3 Phases of memory

1. Acquisition - brain encodes and processes
2. Retention - stores memory until called upon retrieval
3. Retrieval - brain searches for what you remember

Wade Gilbert Rule

Have the right to an attorney during post indictment and pre trial
line up

Stovall Vs. Denno

Forbids you to be suggestive during a photo line up

Voir Dire

Dismissal of jury members

Venire

Large" group of people used to pick jurors from.

Petit jury

The Actual 12 jury members

Strike for cause

when attorney's decide they dont want a particular jury

Peremptory Challenge

Dismissing a jury member just because