Arrest Search & Seizure
Learning Objectives for Arrest Search and Seizure
Learning Objective: The student will be able to write the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify where the requirements for probable cause to arrest and search are contained.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to define probable cause to arrest.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify valid indicators that serve as building blocks of probable cause.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to define suspicion, identify examples of suspicious circumstances, and identify appropriate responses.
Learning Objective: The student will be to able define temporary detention and the elements required for lawful temporary detention.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify circumstances when an officer has the authority to conduct a frisk.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to define an arrest and list elements necessary to constitute a lawful arrest.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to define when a person is under arrest, in constructive custody, and under restraint.
Learning Objective: The student will recognize that once an arrest, search or stop has been made, the information being gathered to establish probable cause or the articulable suspicion to justify the officer's initial action cannot be added to.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify the amount of information necessary to make an arrest based upon information communicated from another officer.
Learning Objective: The student will recognize that obtaining an arrest warrant is the best course of action except when an emergency exists.
Learning Objective: The student will read a scenario, write a complaint that is sufficiently complete to allow a magistrate to issue an arrest warrant.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify situations in which exceptions to obtaining a search warrant exist for conducting limited searches.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify situations in which a search warrant is not necessary to obtain evidence because there is no exception of privacy.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify when evidence may be seized during an inventory.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify advantages of obtaining a search warrant.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify three major components of search warrant documentation.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify essential components of an affidavit for the issuance of a search warrant.
Learning Objective: Given a scenario, the student will be able to write an acceptable probable cause affidavit for a search warrant.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify the unique elements of a pretrial suppression of evidence hearing as it relates to officer testimony.
Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify the possibility of personal and/or agency liability for improper arrest, search and seizure actions