After reading chapter 4 on searches and listening to the lecture the student should be able to:
• Identify the constitutional amendment and the two key terms contained therein that restrict investigative searched and seizures.
• Illustrate the progression of the common levels of proof required during various stages of the criminal investigative process.
• Explain the conditions that justify a legal search.
• Summarize the warrantless search precedents established by the Randolph, Terry, Chimel, Riley, Quarles, King, Carroll, Chambers, Hester, Weeks, and Mapp decisions.
• Understand what the exclusionary rule is, how it affects investigators, and which cases made it applicable at the federal and state levels.
• Diagram the different types of exterior search patterns commonly used at crimes scenes.
• Explain how interior crime scene searches are typically conducted.
• Compare how a search of an arrested suspect differs from a search of a suspect who has not been arrested.