AJ-004 chp 8

1. Under the Forth Amendment, which of the following is not a valid purpose for setting up a roadblock?

Checking for driver's licenses, registration, etc

10. In a stop and frisk involving a motor vehicle, officer may search the entire vehicle for weapons.

False

13. Roadblocks may be used for general criminal law enforcement purposes.

False

16. The warrant less exception in motor vehicle stop cases gives the police unlimited authority to stop vehicles.

False

19. A warrant is never needed for use of beepers to locate cars

False

2. Inventory searches of vehicles are never valid

False

5. Vehicle stops and searches sound like, and constitute, one continuous act

False

9. To be valid under the Fourth Amendment, a consent to search must be in writing

False

4. Under the Fourth Amendment, which of the following is not an automatically authorized police action following a valid traffic stop?

Frisking the driver and passengers

2. A stop by police officer for no reason or without any justification is:

Illegal

11. The minimum requirement for an officer to arrest the passengers of a car along with the driver is:

Probable cause

10. The minimum requirement for a vehicle stop, with regard to a particular vehicle or driver is:

Reasonable suspicion

6. IN which of the following ways are vehicle stops and roadblock dissimilar?

Reasonable suspicion is required.

9. A vehicle stop is a Fourth Amendment:

Seizure of persons and property

18. A driver of a vehicle has been lawfully arrested. Incident to that arrest, police may validly search:

The passenger compartment (including container) for weapons and relevant evidence.

11. After a valid stop, the officer may ask questions of the driver and passengers.

True

12. Regarding the law on vehicle searches, there is no authoritative decision on whether searches of locked trunks or glove compartments are constitutional.

True

15. For Fourth Amendment purposes, mobile motor homes are considered automobiles

True

17. Police Officers may set up a roadblock for the purposes fo checking licenses and registration.

True

18 Probable cause to search must exist prior to the search of an entire vehicle, otherwise the search is illegal.

True

20. The Court has held that a Police Officer does not need to inform the defendant first that he or she is free to go for a consent to search to be valid.

True

3. A vehicle stop is a type of Fourth Amendment Seizure.

True

4. Carroll v. United States (1925) was the first major case involving automobile

True

6. Regarding the law on vehicle stops, reasonable suspicion is determined by the totality of circumstances.

True

7. Road blocks and checkpoints can be an exception to the usual rule that a traffic stop requires individualized reasonable suspicion.

True

Stop and frisk law does apply to motor vehicles.

True

19. If there has been a lawful impoundment of a vehicle, police may conduct an inventory search:

automatically, if there is no bad faith on the part of the police and to do so is authorize by department policy.

21. An officer has validly stopped a motorist and wants to ask the motorist for consent to search. This request for consent:

can be made automatically and at any time during the stop

3. An exception to the usual rule requiring individualized suspicion before stopping a vehicle is for certain types of:

checkpoints

24. In Indianapolis v. Edmond (2000), The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a law enforcement checkpoint program aimed at;

drugs

1. The subjective intention of an officer can invalidate a stop under the Fourth Amendment.

false

5. Which of the following is not a constitutionally valid type of roadblock?

general law enforcement

22. According to the U.S. Supreme Court in Florida v. White (1999), if police have probable cause to believe a vehicle itself is forfeit-able contraband, police may size that vehicle without a warrant:

if it is parked in a public place

16. An officer makes a valid traffic stop and issues a valid ticket (citation) for the traffic violation. The officer has no additional information about criminal activity, and without permission form the driver, the officer searches the vehicle. Under the Fourth Amendment, this search:

is invalid because there is a neither probable cause nor consent

17. An office makes a valid stop of an automobile and wants to ask the driver questions about his travel plans and what is in the vehicle. These questions:

may be asked routinely as part of the stop

23. Police have probable cause to believe that a container holds contraband. They see the container being placed in a vehicle. They have no probable cause as to the vehicle itself. To validly search the car for the container and seize the container, the police:

need no further justifications

15. The two requirements for the vehicle or automobile exception to the warrant requirement are:

probable cause and the vehicle be mobile

13. an officer makes a valid stop of an automobile. The officer has reasonable suspicion that the suspect is armed and dangerous. The suspect is out of the vehicle. Wit regard to the passenger compartment of the vehicle, the officer may:

search it immediately

12. An officer makes a valid stop of an automobile. Which of the following is not automatically authorized?

searching the vehicle for contraband

20. The rules discussed in this chapter regarding motor vehicle searches are based primarily on

state laws

7. Which of the following is not one of the three factors adopted in the balancing test for Constitutionality in sobriety checkpoints?

the gravity of the public concerns served by the seizure the degree to which the seizure advances the public interest The severity of the interference with individual liberty

14. A vehicle stop is:

totally different from a vehicle search , and each is governed by different rules

14. Regarding the on vehicle searches, warrantless vehicle searches are valid even if there was time to obtain a warrant

true

8. In pretext stops, the test for validity concerns:

whether ordinarily the police officers "could have" made the stop.