 | Chapter Objectives
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- Explain the historical evolution of the laws of arrest and search and seizure from the Bill of Rights through the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Describe and diagram the flow of constitutional rights to a defendant in a federal criminal trial and a defendant in a state criminal trial.
- Outline the requirements of a valid arrest warrant.
- Describe whether a "John Doe" arrest warrant is ever valid, and if so, under what circumstances.
- Define probable cause.
- Describe the evolution of the Exclusionary Rule.
- Explain the "Silver Platter" doctrine.
- Describe the reasons for a search incident to a lawful arrest.
- Explain the limitations on the search of a motor vehicle incident to an arrest.
- Describe at least five circumstances that justify a search under exigent circumstances.
- Define the law-enforcement policy issue that determines whether an inventory search is lawful.
- Identify the primary requirement that makes a plain view seizure lawful.
- Describe the limitations of a stop and frisk encounter.
- Explain the circumstances that would cause application of the Fruits of the Poisonous Tree doctrine.
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