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Constitutional Law MPTC Exam with questions and answers 1st Amendment - ANSW..Establishes freedom of religion,speech,press,assembly, and petition$17.99
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Constitutional Law MPTC Exam 2024-2025 with
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1st Amendment - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Establishes freedom of
religion,speech,press,assembly, and petition.
Definition of religion under the 1st amendment - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Citizens have the right
to worship a god or supreme being (Or not to hold such beliefs). The government can
not require or force observations or compel citizens to follow any particular religion.
Fresh Pursuit into Massachusetts from an outside state - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Allows an out
of state officer in fresh pursuit of a suspect who has committed a felony in their state to
pursue the suspect in MA in order to arrest that person
Police need a warrant to search Reasonable expectations of privacy areas, these areas
include: - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Body, Home, Curtilage, Personal property, Place of business,
electronic devices
Curtilage - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Is the immediate area surrounding a dwelling that generally
includes driveways, gardens, decks, swimming pools, garages, and storage sheds.
Police may conduct searches and seize times without a warrant when "No reasonable
expectation of privacy" exist. What are these examples? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Property that
has been discarded, abandoned, or left in plain view
Areas not part of the Curtilage - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Open fields, Abandoned property, Real
property, Garbage
Search Warrant - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Written documents issued by Massachusetts judicial
officials that empower officers to search, without consent and by force if needed, a
defined place for people or evidence of a crime.
Issuing Authority and jurisdiction of a search warrant - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..In Massachusetts
this includes Judges, clerk magistrates and assistant clerk magistrates of the superior
court and district court.
Jurisdiction - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Specific geographical area or territory where a police
officer, constable, or other authorized MA official can arrest or serve processes,
provided they are in uniform or displaying a badge of office.
, Application for search warrant needs a detailed affidavit including: -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Statement of probable cause showing property, articles and person to be
seized, Detail of premises, detail of property, articles, vehicles, or person to be seized.
Probable cause affidavit - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It links people, place, and property identified to
specific crimes.
Warrant execution requirements - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Must be executed as soon as
reasonably possible, and cannot be lawfully executed more than 7 days after issuance.
How many days is a warrant lawful for? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..7 Days
Knock and Announce - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A police officer executing a search warrant shall
knock and announce their presence and purpose before forcibly entering a residence.
Police shall not forgo the knock and announce requirement when serving a warrant
except? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..To prevent a credible risk of imminent harm
No-Knock Warrants are authorized only when? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Establish probable
cause that if officers announce their lives or lives of others will be endangered.
Search warrants are to be executed when? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..During the day time unless
noted otherwise.
What is considered night time when conducting a search warrant -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..10Pm-6am
Anticipatory Search warrant - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A warrant that takes effect at a specific
future time and not on its issuance.
Definition of Speech under the 1st amendment - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Protected speech
includes spoken and written words, the act of not speaking and symbolic conduct.
What are the following types of speech not protected by the 1st amendment. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Obscenity, fighting words, threats, incendiary speech.
2nd Amendment - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Establishes the right to keep and bear arms. Intended
to keep and protect the individuals right to possess personal firearm for lawful purposes.
4th Amendment - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by the
government.
Definition of a Search - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Physical invasion or intrusion of privacy by police
on people, homes or personal property to obtain info or gather evidence.
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