StudiGuide 16: Search and Seizure Law in California
StudiGuide 16: Search and Seizure Law in California
This StudiGuide course provides a practice review-testing resource for police academy cadets (based on the state of California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standard and Training 'POST' requirements) to help understand and pass the POST written examinations.
RECOGNIZE:
· constitutional protections guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment
· standing and how it applies to an expectation of privacy
· probable cause to search and its link between Fourth Amendment protections and search and seizure law
· how the exclusionary rule applies to a peace officer’s collection of evidence
· how probable cause serves as a basis for obtaining a search warrant
· the necessary conditions for securing an area pending issuance of a search warrant
· the elements for compliance with the knock and notice requirements when serving a search warrant
· the application of the Nexus Rule while conducting an authorized search
· why a plain view seizure does not constitute a search
· the legal requirements for seizure of items in plain view
· the conditions and circumstances where warrantless searches and seizures are considered reasonable and legal
· the scope and necessary conditions for conducting the following types of warrantless searches:
cursory/frisk/pat search
consent searches
searches pursuant to exigent circumstances
searches incident to arrest
probation/parole searches
· the scope and necessary conditions for conducting the following types of motor vehicle searches
probable cause searches
seizures of items in plain view
protective searches
consent searches
searches incident to custodial arrest
instrumentality searches
· the scope and necessary conditions for conducting a vehicle inventory
· the legal framework establishing a peace officer’s authority to seize physical evidence from a subject’s body with a warrant, and without a warrant
· the conditions under which a peace officer may use reasonable force to prevent a subject form swallowing or attempting to swallow evidence
· the conditions necessary for legally obtaining blood samples
· the conditions for legally obtaining nonintrusive bodily evidence such as Fingerprints, and Handwriting samples
IDENTIFY:
· the concept of reasonable expectation of privacy
· the time limitations for serving a search warrant
· the importance of a peace officer’s neutral role during an identification procedure
· officer actions before, during, and after an identification procedure to prevent impermissible law enforcement suggestiveness when conducting a:
Field show-up
Photographic spread
Custodial lineup
Selected information from this written examination will also appear on your Mid-Course and End-of-Course Proficiency Tests.
Study Guide for the California Police Academy (P.O.S.T.) Written Examination
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What you will learn
- At the end of this StudiGuide course, students will be able to understand the California Criminal Justice System.
- Students will be able to understand the basic concepts of Search and Seizure – Fourth Amendment.
- Students will, after careful study and review of this course, will be able to have a better understanding for the testing and passing of the State of California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standard and Training (POST) basic police academy written examination.
Rating: 4.8125
Level: All Levels
Duration: 2 hours
Instructor: Michael Rubacha
Courses By: 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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