What is the exclusionary rule?
What will be an ideal response?
The exclusionary rule requires that evidence obtained in violation of the Constitution cannot be used in a criminal trial to prove guilt. This rule is not found anywhere in the wording of the Constitution. As a general rule, evidence obtained in violation of either the Fifth or Sixth Amendment will be excluded at a criminal trial.
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The virtue principle
A. is identical to the merit principle B. doesn't go as far as the merit principle C. goes further than the merit principle D. is unrelated to the merit principle
Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding the knock and announce rule under common law?
a. English common law required police offices to announce their presence and wait for the home owner to open the door. b. English common law permitted police officers to break down the home owner’s door if the home owner refused to allow them in the home to execute the warrant. c. English common law did not require that police officers wait for the home owner to open the door and allow entry—they simply had to announce their presence and proceed to enter the home. d. The English common law approach is the basis of the modern day knock and announce rule.
Punishment that assumes that members of the general public will not commit a crime because they observe the punishment of others who have committed a crime is called a. incapacitation
b. specific deterrence. c. rehabilitation. d. general deterrence.
Under early common law, defendants had the right to counsel in felony cases but not in misdemeanor cases
Indicate whether the statement is true or false