1.What are the requirements for a reasonable sweep search of the passengers aboard a bus or train?

2.What protection(s) do the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution afford people?

3.What are the requirements for a valid search (based in probable cause) under the Fourth Amendment?

4.What is the exclusionary rule? For what purpose was it created?

5.What was the significance of the case of Weeks v. United States? To whom did the ruling in Weeks apply? How did law enforcement officials attempt to circumvent the Weeks rule?

6.What is the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine? In which case was this doctrine developed?

7.How did the ruling in Mapp v. Ohio extend the exclusionary rule?

8.What is the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule?

9.What is the plain view doctrine? What action(s)/circumstance(s) will nullify this doctrine?

10.What constitutes an emergency search for the purposes of the Fourth Amendment? What kind of search is permissible under this doctrine?

11.What is the computer error exception to the exclusionary rule?

12.What is the definition of an interrogation? What are the various forms that an interrogation may take?

13.What forms/techniques of interrogation are not permitted? What techniques or practices are questionable?

14.How did the Supreme Court rulings in Escobedo, Edwards v. Arizona, Minnick v. Mississippi and Davis v. United States affect police interrogation practices?

15.When are Miranda warnings required?

16.How did the Supreme Court characterize station house interrogations in Miranda v. Arizona? What Constitutional rights did station house interrogations endanger?

17.What is the substance of the Miranda warnings?

18.What is seems to have been the impact of requiring Miranda warnings?

19.What are the exceptions to the Miranda warnings as set forth in Brewer v. Williams and Rhode Island v. Innis?

20.What is the definition of an arrest? What circumstances need/need not be present for an arrest to occur?

21.How does the totality of the circumstances test relate to the test used to determine if an arrest has taken place?

22.Under what circumstances is a warrant necessary to make an arrest? When are warrantless arrests permitted?

23.What evidentiary standard must be present before an officer can make an arrest?

24.What type of search may an officer conduct incident to an arrest?

25.What procedures occur at booking?

26.What happens at the initial appearance? When must this step occur?

27.What types of bail are available to a defendant?

28.What is an ROR release? What did the Manhattan Bail Project reveal about the use of ROR as a bail option?

29.What are the possible outcomes of a bail decision? Which outcomes are preferable for bail decision makers? What are the unattractive outcomes of a bail decision?

30.Under what circumstances are the dynamics of the bail decision similar to other decisions in the criminal justice system?

31.Be able to identify the basic structure of the federal and state court systems as depicted in figures 8-1 and 8-2 of the text.

32.What is the power of judicial review? In what case did the U.S. Supreme Court announce that it had this power?

33.What are the three basic way in which judges are selected in the United States? How do elections under the Missouri Plan differ from other types of judicial elections?

34.What are some of the discretionary decisions that a prosecutor can make?

35.What how does the role of prosecutor differ from the role of the defense attorney during the criminal trial?

36.What is the significance of the Supreme Courts decision in Gideon v. Wainwright?