The Fourth Amendment and subsequent judicial decisions regulate the need for a warrant to arrest. As a general rule, to make a valid arrest, a police officer

A) must always have an arrest warrant to comply with Fourth Amendment requirements.
B) must have an arrest warrant unless the crime was committed in the officer's presence.
C) never needs an arrest warrant so long as probable cause exists.
D) must possess a warrant to arrest an individual who was sitting in his or her automobile.
E) must possess probable cause to arrest an individual, but need not normally possess an arrest warrant.


E

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