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Criminal Procedure
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12/05/2014

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Term
Standing
Definition

Rakas

To object to search, D has to show reasonable expectation of privacy in the place or thing

Term
Overnight guest
Definition

Olson

Can object to search of apartment

Term
Guest solely for business purpose
Definition

Carter

Kennedy conc that all social guests have privacy rights but not those solely for business

Term
Where claim to ownership necessary for standing
Definition

Simmons

Testimony of ownership inadmissible at trial

Term
Passenger's standing to sue for stop
Definition

Lower courts

They do have standing since its a seizure

Term
Katz definition of search
Definition

Search when:

1.Person has exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy and

2. That expectation is recognized as reasonable by society

Term
Wire tapped informant
Definition

White

D has no expectation of privacy that second person will not reveal

Term
Thermal imaging
Definition

Kyllo

Constituted a search in 2001

Term
Cell phone searches
Definition

Riley

Constitute a search

Term
Tracking device/beeper
Definition

Knotts

Tracking on public highway only supplements visual observation so not a search

Karo

Not search to install, but need warrant to monitor once it enters curtilage

Term
GPS monitoring
Definition

Jones

Five concurring justices suggested long-term monitoring might be a search

Term
Pen register
Definition

Smith

Not a search

Term

Open fields doctine

Definition

Oliver

No expectation of privacy when not home or curtilage

Term
Aerial surveillance of curtilage
Definition

Ciraolo

Fixed wing airplane at 1,000 ft not a search

Riley

Helicopter at 400 ft also not a search but following factors can change that: revelation of intimate details of home, undue noise, wind, interference with use

Term
Dog sniff in public
Definition

Caballes

Suspicionless dog sniff does not constitute search

Term
Cheek swabs
Definition

King

Do not constitute search

Term
Jones definition of search
Definition

Jones

The trespass approach to search

 

Attachment of GPS device was search. 

Scalia: (1) physical trespass, (2) for purpose of collecting information

Alito: Could be decided on Katz since prolonged tracking violated privacy

Sotomayor: GPS capabilities can "chill associational and expressive freedoms"

Term
Dog sniffing in curtilage
Definition

Jardines

P commited unlicensed physical intrusion in a protected area by "gathering information"

Term
What is a seizure of persons
Definition

Mendenhall

When a person's freedom of movement is curtailed by means of physical force or show of authority. Seized when in light of circumstances, reasonable person would not believe he was free to leave.

Term
Is pursuit a seizure?
Definition

Hodari

Not a seizure since there is show of authority but no submission

Term
Custodial arrest for minor crimes allowed?
Definition

Atwater

No violation as long as probable cause

Term
Detention incident to search of premises
Definition

Michigan v Summers


Allowed

Term
What is seizure of property?
Definition

Karo

 

Meaningful interference with possessory interest of defendant

Term
Temporary detention of property for minimally intrusive search or waiting for warrant
Definition

Place

 

Place detention held legal when 90 minutes

Term
Warrant requirements
Definition

Lo Ji Sales

1. Probable cause

2. Oath

3. Particularity - place, thing, items

4. Neutral and detached magistrate

Term
Probable cause
Definition

Brinegar

 

When circumstances in P's knowledge would warrant person of reasonable caution to believe the item subject to seizure will be found in the place

Term
Multiple suspects: Probable cause
Definition

Pringle

 

PC for all 3 men in car in Pringle was reasonable because of shared possession. It left open the question of whether a one-third chance amounts to probable cause.

Term
Is tip sufficient for PC?
Definition

Gates

 

1. Underlying circumstances

2. Reliability

3. If not sufficient, corroboration

Term
Dog sniff sufficient for PC?
Definition

Harris

 

Enough if dog sufficiently qualified

Term
What information from applicant P would make a warrant invalid?
Definition

Franks

 

Deliberate or recklessness in making false statement or ommission

 

Whren

 

Court resists inquiry in subjective state of mind

Term
Good faith exception to non-particularized items
Definition

Ramirez

 

No exception since requirement is explicit in 4th

Term
Knock and announce
Definition

Wilson

 

Requires it

 

Hudson

 

Exclusion not available

Term
Preventing resident from re-entering trailer without supervision pending permit
Definition

McArthur

 

P has that right

Term
Frisking persons incident to warranted search
Definition

Ybarra

 

Allowed

Term
Arrest in a public place
Definition

Watson

 

Allowed without warrant when PC

Term
Arrest inside house
Definition

Payton

 

Not allowed without warrant 

Term
Arrest in doorway or pursuit begins in doorway
Definition

Santana

 

Legitimate without warrant if PC

Term
Hot pursuit
Definition

Warren v Hayden

 

Exception

Term
Destruction of evidence
Definition

Kentucky v King

 

Exception

Term
Community caretaking doctrine
Definition

Stuart

 

Exception to warrant

 

Fisher

 

Court wants to avoid second-guessing of police conduct

 

Mincey

 

Exception ends when justification ends

Term
Arrest inventory
Definition

Colorado v Bertine

 

Not a search

Term
SILA general
Definition

Chimel

 

Rationale:

1. Remove weapons D may use to resist or escape

2. Search evidence to prevent concealment or destruction

Term
Full body search when SILA
Definition

V Qs

 

Full body search after custodial arrest is lawful

Term
SILA automobiles
Definition

Gant

 

Search justified only (1) for weapons within D's reach, or (2) reasonable suspicion that evidence related to offense of arrest is in vehicle

 

Belton not overruled to can search all containers in passenger compartment

 

Search of trunk not permitted

Term
Automobile exception
Definition

Carrol

 

Line of cases created auto exception. No need for warrant but PC needed.

 

Acevedo

 

May search containers if PC about containers.

 

Ross

 

Refused to make distinction between containers and trunk.

 

 

Term
Automobile exception to immobile vehicles
Definition

V Q

 

Auto exception has expanded but most vehicles in cases were operable. May not apply to immobile vehicles.

Term
Auto exception to mobile homes
Definition

Carney

 

Look at factors that indicates if mobile home is mobility-ready

Term
Plain view
Definition

Horton

 

Seizure of items in plain view constitutional even if discovery not inadvertent

 

Hicks

 

Incriminating nature must be readily apparent. Even slight movement can constitute search.

Term
Plain touch
Definition

Dickerson

 

If feel of object during lawful patdown make identity of object "immediately apparent", seizure is justified

 

Bond

 

Squeezing of luggage without justification is a search

Term
Consent
Definition

Bustamonte

 

Consent has to be voluntary; evaluated in TOC

 

Rodriguez


Would reasonable person believe giver had authority?

 

Jimeno

 

Scope of consent depends on RPP's perception.

Term
Terry
Definition

Terry

 Stop and frisk legal when P has reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity, stop is brief, and frisk is limited for weapons for which there is reasonable suspicion


Suspicion standard

Point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from facts, reasonably warrant intrusion

 

 

Term
Terry source of suspicion
Definition

Alabama v White

Sources upheld even with innocent-seeming details because there was corroborated prediction of future activity

 

Florida v JL

Information of guy in plaid shirt, without any else, not found enough

Term
Scope of Terry stop
Definition

Dunaway and Royer

 

Scope exceeded when D escorted to police station or faraway room on airport

Term
Terry search of home
Definition

Buie

 

Incident to arrest, may search spaces from which attack may be launched without reasonable suspicion. After that, reasonable suspicion required and search limited to spaces where person may be hiding.

Term
Terry search of automobile
Definition

Michigan v Long

 

Search restricted to passenger compartment when there is reasonable suspicion D is dangerous and can get immediate access to weapons

Term
Asking D and passengers to exit car during Terry stop
Definition

MimmsWilson

 

D allowed by Mimms; passengers by Wilson

 

 

Term
Special needs doctrine
Definition

Camara

 

Warrant clause has no meaning in non-criminal context

 

 

Term
Search of student on campus
Definition

NJ v TLO

 

Justified under special needs doctrine

Term
Warrantless search of auto junkyard
Definition

Burger

 

Allowed because P searched under authority of regulatory law, but outer reaches of special needs doctrine

Term
Airport frisks
Definition

Aukai

 

Are legal under special needs doctrine

Term
Sobreity checkpoints
Definition

Sitz

 

Authorized under special needs doctrine

Term
Drug interdiction checkpoint
Definition

Edmonds

 

Not allowed under special needs because of relation to criminal law enforcement

Term
Miranda
Definition

Miranda

 

Accused must be given warnings when in custody before interrogation may begin. Court has not required rigid adherence to language; warnings must convey basic rights.

Term
Custody re: Miranda
Definition

Keohane

Whether in circumstances, RPP would feel at liberty to leave

 

But, Mathiason

Not custody when D voluntarily walked in police station

 

Berkemeyer

No warnings for temporary detention after traffic stop

Term
Is Miranda custody crime-specific?
Definition

Mathis

 

No it is not

Term
Interrogation re: Miranda
Definition

RI v Innis

 

Words or actions designed to elicit an incriminating response. Objective test but police knowledge of D susceptibility is a factor.

Term
Use of snitches in Miranda interrogation
Definition

Perkins

 

Does not amount to Miranda interrogation

Term
Miranda two-step interrogation
Definition

Elstad

 

Two step interrogation allowed in good faith circumstances

 

Siebert

 

Two steps: (1) Violation intentionsl? (2) Look at circumstances

1. Completeness and detail of Qs in Round 1

2. Overlapping content

3. Timing and setting of Rounds 1 and 2

4. Continuity of police personnel

5. Degree to which P treated Round 2 as contination of 1

6. Curative measures

Term
Miranda exception
Definition

Quarles

 

Public safety exception

 

Term
Booking questions exception to Miranda warnings
Definition

Muniz

 

4 members sought exception

 

Hibel

 

Majority gave exception when Qs pertained to identity

Term
Blood samples in Miranda context
Definition

Schmerber

 

Do not violate 5th since no compelling to self-incriminate

Term
Miranda right to silence
Definition

Waiver

Express waiver preferred but not necessary. Butler. Waiver can be inferred from TOC. Thompkins. 

 

Invocation

Invocation must be unambiguous. Thompkins (2.75 hrs).

P to scrupulously honor right. Mosley.

 

Reinterrogation

Wait at least 2 hours. Mosley (> 2.0 hrs) Miranda warnings not necessary; waiver evaluated under TOC.

Term
Miranda waiver: Is it charge-specific?
Definition

CO v Spring

 

D need not know what charges against him when waiving

Term
Miranda right to counsel
Definition

Waiver

 May be inferred based on conduct. Butler.


Edwards Invocation

 Invocation to be unambigous. Davis.

Questioning to cease until counsel present or D reinitates contact. Edwards.

 

Reinterrogation

Police may approach after 14 days. Shatzer.

No need to show re-Miranda; just show valid waiver under TOC. Bradshaw.

Term
Miranda: Relevance of 3rd party attempts to secure access to counsel
Definition

Burbine

 

No obligation to inform D; D may still waive

Term
Miranda: Is invocation of right to counsel crime-specific?
Definition

Roberson

 

Unlike right to silence and 6th amendment, it is not crime-specific

Term
5th Amendment
Definition

Spano

Totality of circumstances to evaluate coercion.

 

Lisenba

Not coercion because attitude of D.

 

Quarles

Threats of violence always give rise to 5th coercion.

 

Fulminante

Snitch wielding power in jail equivalent to P doing it.

Term
6th amendment
Definition

Massiah

 

Right attaches automatically at start of formal proceedings. P may not deliberately elicit response after that point.

 

Kuhlmann


Informers have to do more than merely listen.

 

 

 

 

Term
May the 6th amendment right attach sooner than formal proceedings
Definition

Escobedo

 

Miranda restricted Escobedo to its facts. There, court used following factors:

1) investigation has begun to focus on D

2) D has been taken into police custody

3) interrogation lends itself to eliciting incriminating statements

4) the suspect has requested and been denied counsel

5) the police have not effectively warned him of 5th right

Term
Waiver of 6th right
Definition

Patterson

 

Waiver of Miranda rights is adequate waiver for 6th purpose

Term
Is 6th right offense specific?
Definition

McNeil


It is offense specific

 

Cobb

 

Lesser offense standard Blockburger: Two offenses the same when proving elements of one will prove the other

Term
Exclusionary rule
Definition

Weeks; Mapp


Weeks imposes exclusionary rule on feds; Mapp on states

 

Calandra

 

Does not apply to grand jury proceedings

Term
Use of illegally obtained statements or evidence for impeachment
Definition

Miranda violation

Can be used to impeach. Harris.

 

5th violation

May not be used to impeach. Portash.

 

6th violation

Can be used to impeach. Ventris.

Term
Exceptions to exclusionary rule
Definition

1. Independent source. Murray.

2. Attenuation or dissipation of taint. Wong Sun

3. Inevitable discovery. Nix.

Term
Attenuation or disspiation of taint factors
Definition

Brown

 

1. Length of time

2. Flagrancy of initial misconduct

3. Existence of intervening causes

4. Presence or lack of free will

Term
Application of exclusionary rule to witnesses
Definition

Ceccolini


Claim for exclusion weaker when it comes to witnesses

Term
Physical fruits of Miranda violation
Definition

Patane

 

Are admissible

Term
Invalid warrant
Definition

Leon

 

Proper if executing officer believed in good faith that warrant was valid

 

Nathanson

 

If affidavit very inadequate, improper in spite of good faith

 

 

Term
Bad police record-keeping
Definition

Herring

 

Exclusionary rule does not apply

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