Curtilage - answer✔The area to which extends the intimate activity associated with the sanctity of a
mans home and privacy of life
4th Amendment - answer✔Protects you from the government conducting unlawful search and seizures
where you have reasonable expectation of privacy.
Seizure - answer✔The dominion or control by the government over person or things because of a
violation of the law.
Qualified Immunity - answer✔Protection when the officer acts in good faith
Voyeurism - answer✔Peeping Toms
Incest - answer✔Sexual relations with a near relative
Necrophilia - answer✔A sexual attraction or sexual intercourse with dead bodies
Schizophrenia - answer✔A psychosis characterized by withdraw from reality with high variable,
accompanying affective behavioral and intellectual disturbances.
Pyromania - answer✔A compulsion to set fires
Masochism - answer✔A sexual perversion in which one person derives pleasure from physical pain
inflicted by another.
Kleptomania - answer✔A compulsion to steal an object regardless of its value or worth.
Crime Against Nature - answer✔Unnatural sex acts or unnatural sexual intercourse
Rigors Mortis - answer✔Temporary rigidity of muscles occurring after death
En Banc - answer✔Is a session in which a case is heard before all the judges of a court.
Voir Dire - answer✔Is the questioning of prospective witnesses to determine prejudice or other
problems for challenges to the jurors
Stare Decisis - answer✔The doctrine that when a court of the state has once laid down a principal of law
as applicable to certain facts, it will adhere to the principal and apply it to future cases where the facts are
substantially the same
Nolle Prosequi - answer✔A declaration to a court by the plaintiff that he does not wish to future
prosecute the case
Mittimus - answer✔A writ issued from a court directing a officer to convey the person named therein to
jail or other place of confinement
Mens Rea - answer✔Criminal, literally a guilty mind
Mandamus - answer✔A writ which issues out of a superior court directed to any person corporation of
inferior court requiring them to do a particular thing
Mali Fides - answer✔In bad faith
Habeas Corpus - answer✔a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into
court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.
Corpus - answer✔The body which a crime has been committed
Tennessee vs. Garner - answer✔Deadly force may not be used against an unarmed and fleeing suspect
unless necessary to prevent the escape and unless the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect
poses a significant threat of death or serious injury to the officers or others.
Chimel vs. California - answer✔Incident to arrest an officer may search the person and the "area within
the immediate control"
Graham vs. Conner - answer✔use of force
Illinois vs. Gates - answer✔totality of the circumstances
Arizona vs. Gant - answer✔You can only search for what is subsequent to arrest when it is reasonable
that the arrestee could access a weapon or destroy evidence in a vehicle.
Riley vs. California - answer✔A warrant is needed to search a cell/smart phone
Birchfield vs. North Dakota - answer✔DWI blood draw requires a warrant
Florida vs. Rover - answer✔Allows officer to search a subject due to search incident to arrest.
Katz vs. U.S. - answer✔right to privacy; warrantless wiretaps if telephone violated "per se" (4th
Amendment)
Terry vs. Ohio - answer✔Justifies an officer in stopping and frisking a subject if they have reasonable
suspicion.
Mapp vs. Ohio - answer✔Established that evidence seized illegally is inadmissible in court.
"exclusionary rule"
Carrol vs. U.S. - answer✔Established the search of a vehicle DOES NOT require search warrant.
"warrantless search of vehicles"
Miranda vs. Arizona - answer✔Establishes that all individuals must be warned o their rights before
being interrogated, if not their statements are inadmissible in court. "5th Amendment; self incrimination"
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