Deck 3: Stop and Frisk

Question 1

Officers may frisk a suspect for weapons if they have reasonable suspicion that the person is:

A) Under the influence
B) Armed and dangerous
C) Hiding evidence
D) About to escape

Answer 1

Armed and dangerous

Question 2

The purpose of a frisk is:

A) Officer protection
B) Suspect protection
C) To look incriminating evidence
D) To arrest the suspect

Answer 2

Officer protection

Question 3

Which case established that the practice of "stop and frisk" based on reasonable suspicion was valid?

A) Terry v. Ohio
B) Mapp v. Ohio
C) United States v. Leon
D) Carroll v. United States

Answer 3

Terry v. Ohio

Question 4

Which case established that reasonable suspicion based on a "wanted poster" is sufficient for a valid stop?

A) Terry v. Ohio
B) Adams v. Williams
C) Arizona v. Johnson
D) United States v. Hensley

Question 5

Which of the following should not be considered when determining the length of an investigatory stop?

A) The purpose of the stop
B) The reasonableness of the time used for the investigation
C) The reasonableness of the means of investigation
D) The behavior of the suspect

Question 6

In ________, the Supreme Court ruled that presence in a high-crime area, combined with unprovoked flight upon observing police officers, gives officers sufficient grounds to investigate further to determine if criminal activity is about to take place.

A) Adams v. Williams
B) Illinois v. Wardlow
C) Minnesota v. Dickerson
D) Terry v. Ohio

Question 7

The extent of a frisk is limited to a pat-down for ________.

A) Drugs and drug paraphernalia
B) Incriminating evidence
C) Weapons
D) Proof of identification

Question 8

What starts as a frisk may quickly turn into an arrest if ________ develops.

A) Exclusionary evidence
B) Mere suspicion
C) Reasonable suspicion
D) Probable cause

Question 9

What is the proper standard for evaluating the factors used in an officer's decision to make an investigatory stop?

A) Consideration of each factor individually
B) Consideration of some factors
C) Consideration of only incriminating factors
D) Consideration of the totality of the circumstances

Question 10

Police officers may order passengers out of a lawfully stopped vehicle and pat them down if there is ________ they may be armed and dangerous.

A) A hunch
B) Mere suspicion
C) Slight suspicion
D) Reasonable suspicion

Question 11

The ________ Amendment allows police officers, pursuant to a stop and frisk, to require a person to provide his or her name.

A) First
B) Fourth
C) Sixth
D) Eighth

Question 12

Which of the following cases established that there is no rigid time limit for the length of an investigatory stop?

A) Terry v. Ohio
B) United States v. Sharpe
C) Alabama v. White
D) Arizona v. Johnson

Question 13

The ___________ provides for admissibility of evidence when the connection between unconstitutional police conduct and discovered evidence is sufficiently remote or has been interrupted by some intervening circumstance.

A) Good faith doctrine
B) Independent untainted source
C) Tainted evidence doctrine
D) Attenuation doctrine

Question 14

A stop and frisk based on mere suspicion is valid.

Question 15

The extent of a frisk is strictly limited to a pat-down for weapons.

Question 16

A stop and frisk may not be based on information provided by another individual.

Question 17

Reasonable suspicion is a more demanding standard than probable cause.

Question 18

A frisk that goes beyond that allowed in Terry is invalid.

Question 19

A criminal profile alone does not constitute reasonable suspicion for a valid stop.

Question 20

An anonymous tip that a person is carrying a gun is sufficient to justify a police officer's stop and frisk of that person.

Question 21

The discovery of a valid arrest warrant is a sufficient intervening event to break the causal chain between an unlawful stop and the discovery of evidence incident to an arrest.