Criminal Procedure
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the process for obtaining a search warrant and the information that is required to be included in a valid search warrant.
2. State the knock and announce rule and circumstances in which the police are not required to knock and announce.
3. Know the scope of a search incident to an arrest of an individual and the circumstances in which the police are justified in searching an automobile based on a search incident to an arrest.
4. Define pretext arrests and know the constitutionality of pretext arrests under the Fourth Amendment.
5. State the legal standard for a valid consent search, the standard for determining the scope of a consent search, and the legal test for determining whether an individual withdrew consent.
6. Know the law on third-party consent.
7. Describe the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment.
8. List the categories of warrantless searches.
9. State the requirements for inventory searches.