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What is the 4th Amendment doctrine under which a police officer may seize evidence of a crime that is readily visible to the officer’s naked eye as long as the officer is legally in the place where the evidence becomes visible?

Also known as “false arrest”, what is the tort or crime of unlawfully restraining a person?

An elected lawmaking body such as the Congress of the United States or a state assembly is called a legislature.

A person’s conscious reason for acting is their ______________________________.

Two men are sitting in the front seats of a vehicle. On a legal traffic stop, a police officer locates a bag of money taken in a recent robbery lying in the backseat floorboard of the vehicle. The men are in ___________________ possession of the money bag. 

Impugning the credibility of witness by introducing contradictory evidence or proving his or her bad character is called ____________________.

Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse of one’s husband or wife is referred to as _______________________ abuse.

What is the judicial doctrine forbidding the use of evidence in a criminal trial where the evidence was obtained in violation of the defendant’s constitutional rights?

The search of a person placed under arrest and the area within the arrestee’s grasp and control was decided in _____________________________________.

Generally, polygraph evidence is inadmissible as evidence in a criminal trial.