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State courts may not expand the constitutional minimum rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.

The Supreme Court has adopted which of the following readings of the Fourth Amendment regarding stops and frisks? The Amendment

In Powell v. Alabama, the 1932 Supreme Court decision involving several black youths accused of raping two white girls on a train, the court ruled that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to provide the rudiments of a fair trial-fundamental fairness.

Which of the following questions are part of the three step analysis used to determine whether the government has complied with the Fourth Amendment? I. Did the government action emphasize results over process? II. Was there a physical intrusion into a protected place? III. Was the government action a “search” or “seizure”? IV. If the action was a search, was it an “unreasonable” search?

A proper “frisk” under the stop-and-frisk rules established by Terry v. Ohio

Explain where a swan ganz catheter is inserted and wedged into place or seated

The objective basis for stops and frisks is

Which of the following places is/are not likely to be considered part of the curtilage?

According to the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Montoya de Hernandez, involving a detention at the border for drug investigation:

According to the Supreme Court in Katz v. U.S., involving an electronic listening and recording device attached to the outside of a public telephone booth,