A man is accused of owning an illegal weapon that was discovered by the police during a search of the defendants home without a warrant or probable cause. The case is most likely dismissed due to lack of evidence because
a. only federal laws deal with gun ownership and the police acted on local authority only.
b. seizures are illegal unless the suspect is given prior warning.
c. the exclusionary rule prohibits the prosecution from presenting the weapon as evidence since it was unlawfully seized.
d. the laws governing what constitutes an illegal weapon are unclear and have not been thoroughly tested in the courts.
e. the police did not follow the basic rules of the clear and present danger test.
Question 2
What is one reason cited in the text that the founders identified essential rights of criminal defendants?
a. They believed most defendants were actually innocent.
b. They wanted to protect people against tyrannical and unjust use of criminal courts.
c. They did not trust the courts.
d. Criminal defendants were well protected in Britain, and the founders wanted to copy the British court system.
e. The Anti-Federalist refused to ratify the Constitution without such provisions.
In Search of Primordial Photons
The site of Messel, Germany where Darwinius masillae was discovered.
The Taung Child, the first of the australopithecines to be discovered, is the type specimen for Aust
A boy walks past a member of the unofficial “community police” in Cruz Grande, Guerrero, Mexico.
To search for the Native American family would be fruitless. There are rural, urban, single-parent, ...
A police record search of 250 incoming Grade 10 at a Secondary School shows that 26 had been ...