Citp Exam 4-Fourth Amendment
Questions And Answers With Verified
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What is Knock & Announce? - ANSWER✔✔Executing warrants in dwellings,
Supreme Court Ruling to be apart of 4th amendment reasonableness requirement,
must announce authority & purpose
What are the steps in knock and announce? - ANSWER✔✔Knock (give notice),
Announce your identity , announce your authority of purpose, demand entry
What is the purpose of the knock & announce? - ANSWER✔✔Reduce potential
violence to both the officers/occupants of the house, prevent/reduce needless
destruction of private property, recognize individuals right of privacy in his/her
home
What can you go in, break open, and make entry? - ANSWER✔✔After a
reasonable amount of time
Is force the only manner in which the government can violate knock & announce?
- ANSWER✔✔No, its prohibits an unannounced intrusion into a dwelling
What does break open include? - ANSWER✔✔Breaking down a door, forcing
open chain lock on partially open door, opening a locked door by use of a pass key,
opening a closed by unlocked door
Does knocking only include knocking on the door? - ANSWER✔✔No, you can
use phone call, bullhorn, police loudspeaker, public address system
, When can you make entry after silence occurs? - ANSWER✔✔After waiting a
reasonable amount of time
What are some of the factors in regards to Silence/Knock & Announce? -
ANSWER✔✔Time of day, size/physical layout of house, nature of the crime,
evidence indicating guilt of suspect, nature of evidence, how long it would take to
destroy evidence, defensive measures taken by suspect
What are some more factors when you can enter a home in regards to knock &
announce? - ANSWER✔✔Sounds of flight, seeing/hearing destruction of
evidence, verbal refusal, gunfire
What are exigent circumstances in regards to knock & announce? -
ANSWER✔✔Danger to officers/3rd partners (reasonable suspicion), destruction of
evidence (reasonable suspicion), hot pursuit
What is a useless gesture? - ANSWER✔✔Don't have to knock & announce
because suspect is already aware of LE presence
Can you use a ruse/decoy in regards to knock & announce? - ANSWER✔✔Yes,
using an undercover agent, getting in to house by hiding LE identity
When a ruse fails, will the knock/announce rule apply to a later forcible entry? -
ANSWER✔✔Yes
When does knock and announce rule NOT apply? - ANSWER✔✔Door is already
open, normal force of knocking opens door
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