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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.

Driving away from a DUI checkpoint gives rise to police suspicion for officers to conduct a Terry search. 

If Merle consents to a law enforcement recording of his telephone conversation with Joan, the recording may be used at Joan’s trial over her privacy invasion objection.

A geofence search involves tracking an individual’s phone for an exact location at a specific time.