Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. When deciding admissibility of evidence claimed to be the fruit of an unlawful search or seizure, California Courts must follow US Supreme Court decisions applying the Fourth Amendment.
2. Consensual encounters do not involve any infringement of a person’s liberty and therefore require no justification.
3. To satisfy the Fourth Amendment, an officer making a vehicle detention must have “PC for the stop.”
4. The Miranda decision created the warning-and-waiver routine as a means of neutralizing the presumptive compulsion of custodial police interrogation, in order to make statements admissible in court over a Fifth Amendment challenge.
5. A peace officer’s arrest of a person for committing an infraction in the officer’s presence violates both PC 836(a)(1) and the Fourth Amendment.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False

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