Walker & Hemmens, Legal Guide for Police (10th Ed.)
Test Bank—Chapter 7
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. A warrantless search can be made incident to _____________.
2. An officer wants to institute a search incident to an arrest. The search must occur
_______________.
3. An officer arrests an offender. The officer can search _____________.
4. A _______________ is the voluntary consent of an individual to forgo his or her
constitutional rights in a specific circumstance.
5. An individual consents to a search of a vehicle. The individual states that the officer can
search only the trunk. The officer can then legally search _____________.
6. Warrantless searches of motor vehicles are governed by standard of _____________.
7. An officer stops a vehicle to issue a citation. That officer can institute a search
_____________.
8. An officer is required by statute or policy to seize a car. That car has been ____________.
9. A(n) __________________ is an exception to the rule that searches without a warrant are
per se unreasonable.
10. An officer performs a traffic stop. As she approaches the vehicle, she notices an illegal
handgun sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle. The officer seizes the evidence. This
evidence was __________________.
11. A(n) ______________ is an area that is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. This
property is not a house or curtilage.
12. Terry v. Ohio provided the rationale that led to the practice of __________________.
13. If an officer is using a recorder or microphone, that officer is by nature utilizing a(n)
_______________.
14. The search of baggage and passengers at an airport is considered ______________.
15. A firearms dealer, gun store, or liquor store is an example of a _______________.
True/False Questions
1. One of the rationales for allowing warrantless searches incident to a lawful arrest is that
2. An officer can arrest an individual for the sole purpose of performing a search.
3. An officer lawfully arrests an individual at his home. The officer then transports the individual
to a jail. The officer returns in two weeks to search the home because it was the setting of the
arrest. The officer searches the whole home. This search was not legal or constitutional.
4. An officer lawfully arrests a driver of a car. The officer searches the driver’s person as well as
the area immediately within reach of the driver of the car. This search was not legal or
constitutional.
5. An officer can perform a search incident to an arrest for any crime no matter how serious or
6. An officer can coerce consent or a waiver in order to perform a search.
7. An officer asks an individual if he can search the individual’s apartment. The individual
consents to the search but only gives the officer permission to search the kitchen of the
apartment. The officer searches the kitchen. The search was lawful and constitutional.
8. No other individual can give consent for a search except for the person who owns a property.
9. There is no practical difference between warrantless searches on homes and vehicles.
10. An officer cannot automatically search a vehicle when performing a traffic stop.
11. An officer impounds a vehicle. That officer’s department requires an inventory search of
every impounded vehicle. The officer finds narcotics underneath the backseat of the vehicle.
This evidence can be admitted at trial.
12. An officer is patrolling a neighborhood. As the officer drives past a yard, she can see a
methamphetamine lab. The officer then seizes the lab. This search and seizure was lawful
because of the doctrine of plain view.
13. An officer wishes to perform a search on a backyard of a house. The officer enters into the
backyard without a warrant and performs the search. The search was legal and constitutional.
14. A backyard adjacent to a house is an example of an open field.
15. A private individual acting upon his or her own authority is not bound by Fourth
Amendment considerations when performing a search.