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Law Enforcement: Legal Issues
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Law Enforcement: Legal Issues
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1. A LEO may search the exterior clothing of someone lawfully detained if the officer has __________ _____________ to believe that the person is armed.

2. An officer may not enforce a court order issued by another state or jurisdiction unless the court order has been?

3. What is the FL Statute that covers arrests with warrants?

4. The government is the agent of the people, not their master, and a law enforcement officer represents what?

5. What is the rule that states that officers can rely on the collective knowledge of other officers when they take action?

6. a criminal or noncriminal act punishable by law.

7. Most criminal offenses, which require a forbidden act by the offender.

8. Unlawful arrest is an intentional?

9. protects 'government officials . . . from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.'

10. Under state law, the officer's employing agency cannot pay the punitive damages; they?

11. Officer Friendly was at a Gator game with his family, when an FSU fan came up to him with a gun and told him he was going to make sure he never sang another gator chant for the rest of his life. Officer Friendly was in his favor Gator shirt, and never had a chance to tell the FSU fan that he was a police officer. what crime has been committed?

12. a statement that is made out of court by someone not testifying at a trial or hearing which offers evidence to prove or disprove the truth of the matter asserted.

13. T/F: The purpose of the Amendments is to ensure that individual rights are not infringed upon by the government.

14. To prove that a crime has been committed, it must be shown that?

15. any person who has information about some element of the crime or about evidence or documents related to the crime.

16. What are the type of statements made by a suspect who is in custody who voluntarily gives information even when not solicited through questioning?

17. What is the doctrine that says that if an officer executes a search warrant they believe to be valid and later determine the warrant has a legal error, any seized evidence may still be admitted?

18. Kelly took a fire extinguisher valued at $150 from the gym at school. What crime did she commit?

19. T/F: If an officer makes threats, promises leniency, or creates physical evidence for use during the interview, the statements obtained as a result could be suppressed, and the officer could be facing administrative discipline and civil liability.

20. a person who aids or contributes in the commission or concealment of a crime.

21. What are the four (4) elements of criminal intent?

22. A fair probability or reasonable grounds to believe that a crime was committed, based on the 'totality of the circumstances'?

23. a stop made by an officer on the basis of a traffic infraction when there is not enough information for reasonable suspicion to make the stop but for the purpose of looking inside the vehicle for evidence of criminal activity.

24. Protects individuals from governmental abuse of power and defines law enforcement's authority to act?

25. The body of law formed by the decisions of the court system (Judicial branch) is called?