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When a person is arrested in a motor vehicle, which one of the following aspects of a search is not allowed?

Because 75% of crimes involve motor vehicles, an officer can logically and legally make a stop for no particular reason, because it is statistically likely the officer will find some person or evidence indicating a crime has transpired.

A 5-year-old child is admitted with diarrhea and vomiting for the past 2 days. Vital signs are temperature 98.8 F; pulse 130 beats/minute; respirations 28 breaths/minute; blood pressure 100/66. The nurse notes capillary refill > 4 seconds, dry mucous membranes, and sunken eyes. Which priority interventions should the nurse perform next in this child’s care? 

Which of the following requires immediate nursing intervention in a 2-year-old child with acute vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration?

“When administering oral medications that are bitter to a toddler, the nurse mixes it with”

Now that you know that mistaken identity can be a problem in the criminal justice system, you can see why police (and other criminal justice folks) work diligently to find evidence-based identification of suspects.  Yet, the 2008 Columbia Law Review found that there were several significant factors in mis-identifying individuals resulting in some innocents being incarcerated (no, don’t think that EVERYONE is innocent – very small percentage, but we don’t want anyone innocent incarcerated).  Which one of the following is not one of the leading factors relating to erroneous identification those studied in the report?

One way to make evidence-based suspect identifications is by using photographs.  The use of photographs for identification purposes prior to an arrest is permissible, provided the suspect’s photograph is grouped with at least six other photographs of the same general description.

A showup is to single subjects as lineup is to multiple subjects.

The most common circumstance for project closure is simply a ________ project.

So long as law officers, or any other criminal justice personnel, do not use torture or violence to obtain a confession, the Supreme Court has determined confessions may be obtained by non-violent means such as:  withholding food, heat, clothing.