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The Supreme Court in Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001), involving state hospital obstetric patients who were pregnant and arrested for child abuse after testing positive for cocaine, decided that the:
 
  a. warrantless, suspicionless, and nonconsensual searches violated the Fourth Amendment.
  b. searches do not violate the Fourth Amendment because the incidence of cocaine use among pregnantwomen has created a special need.
 c. searches do not violate the Fourth Amendment if doctors suspect the mother is using cocaine.
  d. searches violate the Fourth Amendment because they are conducted by health care professionals and notlaw enforcement.

Question 2

The need for prison and jail security permits searches without probable cause or a warrant of:
 
  a. prisoners and pretrial detainees.
  b. prisoners, pretrial detainees, and visitors to the prison.
  c. only prisoners.
  d. prisoners, pretrial detainees, employees of the prison, and visitors to the prison.



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d



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