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Law Enforcement: Legal Issues
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1. The supremacy clause can be found in what Article of the Constitution.

2. Prohibits compelled self-incrimination, double jeopardy and deprivation of life, liberty, or property without 'due process' of law. And requires grand jury indictments.

3. Mark has a conviction for aggravated battery. Mark slapped bob because he didn't like what he was wearing. What crime has Mark committed?

4. 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.'

5. Do mere thoughts constitute criminal liability?

6. Two search types that are often considered exceptions to the search warrant requirement are not technically searches because the person does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the place to be searched.

7. These two Florida statutes work in conjunction to allow all individuals, including but not limited to law enforcement officers, to use reasonable and necessary force to defend themselves when faced with the imminent threat of unlawful force?

8. A search warrant must have sufficient facts to establish ________ __________ that evidence of a crime will be found in the place to be searched.

9. Forms the main body of the Constitution

10. What FL Statute provides that a victim has the right 'to be informed, present, and to be heard, when relevant, at all crucial stages of a criminal or juvenile proceeding...'

11. What is the type of search that is not designed to search for evidence but to protect the arrested person's property and to protect the officer from accusations of theft?

12. what does it mean to engage in a course of conduct directed at a person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose?

13. a rule which states that evidence obtained illegally by law enforcement will not be admissible at trial.

14. What are the three requirements for seizing contraband without a warrant?

15. Must be signed by a neutral magistrate or judge.

16. In tenancy situations covered by the law, the only way a landlord can legally recover possession of the leased residence without the consent of the tenant is to

17. Elements of Aggravated Battery

18. actual objects which may be offered to prove facts about a case.

19. Must clearly describe the unacceptable behavior and set a punishment for it.

20. This Stature requires probable cause before a weapons pat down is permitted.

21. Damages actually caused by the injury. For example, lost earnings, medical expenses, destruction of personal property and attorney's fees.

22. $500, or 60 days or both

23. What is the name of this type of warrant-less search: this search has two purposes which are

24. T/F: Simple or mere evidence can be a crime?

25. 30 years, life, $10,000 and/or both