essay questions (Criminal Procedure)

You must answer three out of the four questions. Your responses to EACH should be between 250-400 words

Essay Questions

1. Identify and explain the three major exceptions to the “knock-and-announce” rule.

2. Describe the concept of a search incident to a pretext arrest.  Give an example and explain in full.

3. Explain 4 situations when a person can consent to a search for someone else. Explain the difference between actual and apparent authority to consent for another person.

4. Explain the special need for searches of prisoners, and discuss prisoners’ expectation of privacy.  Provide examples.

Essay Instructions

1. When developing your answers, you must include (cited) facts to support the major points in your response. Your responses should not include excessive citations, but should be paraphrased with your thoughts and analysis, also. That is, your responses must reflect a balance between facts and your perspective on the points you made.

1. Your responses to EACH of the quiz questions should be between 250-400 words, doubled-spaced, and written in 12 point Time New Roman font, in one Word. doc file.

1. Include the question you are responding to IMMEDIATELY before EACH answer.

1. Include a reference page, cited and formatted in APA style.