Deck 3: Arrests

Question 1

What is the definition of an arrest?

A) laws governing citizen interaction with law enforcement.
B) the taking of a person into custody against his or her will for the purpose of criminal prosecution or interrogation.
C) the initial contact between an officer and a suspect.
D) none of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The four elements of an arrest include?

A) an arrest warrant, a search warrant, seizure, and detention.
B) authority, an arrest warrant, seizure and detention, and understanding by the person arrested.
C) authority, intention, warrant, understanding by the person arrested.
D) authority, intention, seizure and detention, and understanding by the person arrested.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is the definition of a constructive seizure?

A) a defendant submits to the show of authority through the use of words only.
B) the police place their hands only on the defendant to place them under arrest.
C) a defendant is tackled after fleeing from the police.
D) none of the above.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In which of the following cases was investigatory pursuit not considered a seizure?

A) California v. Hodari D.
B) Michigan v. Cheternut
C) Payton v . New York
D) Draper v. United States

Question 5

What occurred in Payton v. New York?

A) the defendant threw drugs from his pocket as he was fleeing the police.
B) stop and frisk searches were held to be constitutional.
C) the Court held that officer may not enter the home of a suspect unless they first obtain an arrest warrant.
D) an informant was used.

Question 6

Probable cause is required to?

A) make a stop
B) do a frisk
C) convict a person
D) make an arrest

Question 7

Direct information includes

A) sight
B) smell
C) taste
D) all of the above

Question 8

What occurred in Draper v. United States?

A) an informant's tips were combined with an officers observations to make an arrest without a warrant.
B) the defendant ran after seeing the police approaching him.
C) suspects were subjected to a stop and frisk.
D) officers arrested a suspect in his home without a warrant.

Question 9

A stop must be?

A) short in duration.
B) take place in a separate location.
C) based on probable cause.
D) all of the above.

Question 10

Reasonable suspicion can be used to?

A) make an arrest
B) search a house
C) make a stop
D) all of the above

Question 11

In which of the following cases did the court validate stop and frisk searches?

A) California v. Hodari D.
B) Terry v. Ohio
C) Payton v. New York
D) Tennessee v. Garner

Question 12

Several states have laws requiring citizens to ____________________________ when asked by law enforcement.

A) identify themselves
B) consent to a search
C) consent to be arrested
D) post bail

Question 13

The Supreme Court case of Tennessee v. Garner was decide in?

A) 1970
B) 1975
C) 1980
D) 1985

Question 14

In Tennessee v. Garner, the Supreme Court stated that?

A) the use of deadly force was subject to the 9^th Amendment.
B) the use of deadly force was subject to the 4^th Amendment.
C) the use of deadly force was subject to the 5^th Amendment.
D) the use of deadly force was subject to the 2^nd Amendment.

Question 15

To decide on the amount of force necessary to apprehend a suspect, officer must consider

A) if the suspect is armed.
B) if the suspect is in the process of committing a violent felony.
C) the perceived dangerousness of the suspect.
D) all of the above.

Question 16

An arrest must always be accompanied with an arrest warrant.

Question 17

A seizure of a person only occurs when there is physical use of force.

Question 18

An officer must have a warrant to enter a suspect's home, absent exigent circumstances.

Question 19

Probable cause is required to make an arrest.

Question 20

An officer may not shoot a suspect fleeing from the scene.