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Chapter 05 - Criminal Law and Procedure
V. ANSWERS TO PROBLEM CASES:
1. No. The Supreme Court granted the government’s petition for a writ of certiorari and held
that Ressam’s conviction should stand. Therefore, the Court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s
2. The U.S Supreme Court ruled that the traffic stop did not violate the Fourth Amendment
because the officer had a reasonable suspicion that the driver was intoxicated. The
anonymous phone tip was sufficiently reliable under the circumstances because she claimed
3. No. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit noted that the Fifth Amendment
privilege against self-incrimination does not extend to legal entities such as corporations.
Moreover, the court observed, a private individual cannot claim such a privilege against the
production of documents belonging to a corporation on the ground that they would tend to
4. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that no Fourth Amendment violation occurred when
the U.S. Customs Service agent removed shredded documents from a garbage bag found
inside the dumpster located on Bet-Air's property. According to the court, Bet-Air's
subjective expectation of privacy in its garbage was not objectively reasonable--and hence
5. The Supreme Court held that the term “proceeds,” as used in the federal money-laundering
statute, refers to profits of an unlawful activity rather to receipts taken in by the defendant or
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defendants as a result of their unlawful activity. The Court concluded that “proceeds” means
“profits” because, if “proceeds” meant “receipts,” many criminal cases not conventionally
seen as involving money-laundering would have money-laundering counts added to them,
6. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held that the search of the automobile violated the
Fourth Amendment. Warrantless searches of the arrestee incident to an arrest have long been
held permissible under the Fourth Amendment. The same has been true of certain warrantless
searches of an arrestee’s automobile. However, the Court regarded the automobile search at
issue here as different from the leading case in which the Court recognized that an arrestee’s
7. The Supreme Court held that in order to state a valid civil RICO claim, the plaintiff must be
able to establish a direct causation link between the RICO violation and the harm experienced
by the plaintiff. The Court concluded that there was an absence of a direct causation link
8. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, a limited segment of the tape's audio portion--the
segment dealing with the question about the date of Muniz's sixth birthday--should have been
suppressed under the Fifth Amendment and Miranda. That question called for a testimonial
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considered nontestimonial (despite being incriminating), just as the sound of one's voice and
9. No. The court observed that the meaning of §§ 1037(a)(3) and (a)(4) could be discerned
more clearly by reviewing a later subsection, § 1037(d)(2). In that subsection, Congress
stated:
For purposes of [§§ 1037(a)(3) and (a)(4),] header information or registration information
is materially falsified if it is altered or concealed in a manner that would impair the ability
The court noted that even if an email address does not necessarily identify the sender, “it does
tell a recipient where to send replies to the sender, much in the same way a return address on
an envelope [operates].” Therefore, the court concluded that “[a] material falsification of
10. No. The U.S. Supreme Court held that law enforcement officers violated the Fourth
Amendment when they used a thermal imaging device to detect heat emanating from Kyllo’s
home, in order to determine whether the heat emanations were consistent with the amount
normally given off by high-intensity lamps that are used for indoor growth of marijuana. The
police used the information they gained from use of the thermal imaging device as part or all
of the basis for a request for a search warrant regarding Kyllo’s home. The Court’s holding
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11. No, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded. Park occupied a position of responsibility and
authority with regard to the act or transaction constituting the offense, and he had the power
12. Affirming the decision of the Missouri Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court disapproved
of what had become a fairly commonly employed police tactic: question a suspect in custody
without first giving the Miranda warnings; elicit a confession (which would be
unconstitutional and hence inadmissible); then give the Miranda warnings and resume
questioning by taking the suspect over the previously discussed territory; and elicit a new
confession. The Court held that such a tactic undermined the constitutionally required
13. The U.S. Supreme Court held that the warrantless entry of the apartment did not violate HK’s
14. No, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Because WF was no longer on the premises when the
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