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In what case did SCOTUS rule that, in some circumstances, there is no right to privacy in bank records?


A) Illinois v. Caballes (2005)
B) U.S. v. Jones (2012)
C) U.S. v. Miller (1976)
D) State v. Patino (2012)

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What is the third-party doctrine? Why is it important?

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According to the SCOTUS-created third-pa...

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The right of citizens to come and go as they please is called _______________.

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liberty (t...

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In U.S. v. Galpin (2009) , the court addresses the issue of reasonable expectation of privacy in computer files and compares a computer to which of the following?


A) a residence
B) a workplace
C) a hotel room
D) a car

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Until 1967, SCOTUS defined searches mainly according to property law. According to the _______________, to qualify as a search, officers had to physically invade a "constitutionally protected area."


A) constitutionality doctrine
B) privacy doctrine
C) trespass doctrine
D) reasonable expectation of privacy doctrine

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SCOTUS has held that citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the telephone numbers they call.

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In what decade did SCOTUS replace the trespass doctrine with the reasonable expectation of privacy doctrine?


A) the 1960s
B) the 1970s
C) the 1950s
D) the 1980s

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The Fourth Amendment only protects against invasions that amount to unreasonable searches and seizures.

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What is the first question in the three main steps in Fourth Amendment analyses?


A) Was the law enforcement action a "search" or a "seizure"?
B) If the action was a search or a seizure, was it reasonable?
C) If the action was an unreasonable search, does the Fourth Amendment ban its use as evidence?
D) If the action was reasonable, can the evidence be used to impeach a witness?

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Compare the trespass doctrine with the privacy doctrine in defining Fourth Amendment searches.

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Until the late 1960s, SCOTUS defined sea...

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According to the privacy doctrine, the Fourth Amendment protects places, not persons.

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The first part of a writ of assistance, where royal agents can search anyone, anywhere, anytime, is referred to as a _______________ warrant.


A) general
B) constitutional
C) privacy
D) specific

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In which of the following places does the privacy doctrine apply?


A) overhearing a conversation on the street
B) opening a briefcase and looking inside
C) climbing over a backyard fence
D) standing in the street and looking into a living room through open curtains

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In Kyllo v. U.S. (2001), SCOTUS ruled that the discovery and measurement of heat from a home by law enforcement, using a method not readily available to the public, is a Fourth Amendment search.

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_______________ is the right to be let alone by the government.

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SCOTUS created the two-prong evaluation of privacy expectations in Katz v. U.S. (1967).

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According to the _______________ _______________ doctrine, "the Fourth Amendment is not triggered when private parties not associated with the government conduct searches and they turn over what they found to the police" ( U.S. v. Jacobsen 1984).

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In practice, searches and seizures sometimes serve to protect police officers.

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According to SCOTUS, which of the following are constitutionally protected areas?


A) garages
B) hotel rooms
C) stores
D) garages, hotel rooms, and stores

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The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the _______________.

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