You are an officer and in the course of your job, you enter a residence and observe what appears to be crack cocaine lying on a table. In order to legally apply the plain view doctrine, what should you be considering?

What will be an ideal response?


It must be immediately apparent that the item is illegal, items cannot be moved in order to create plain view, technology has not enhanced the officers ability to conduct a plain view observation, it must have happened without trickery or deception of suspects, and must be founded on probable cause to believe that the items are being, were, or are about to be used in the commission of a crime.

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a. the officer’s uniform b. symbol on the squad car c. response of the dispatcher or receptionist d. building location

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______ refers to the act of entering a country for the purposes of work or residency.

a. Refugee status b. Immigration c. Naturalization d. Citizenship

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