Hair samples have become more commonly used in criminal prosecutions to prove guilt. State the constitutional issues with such samples and how the courts have answered those issues
What will be an ideal response?
Constitutional issues around the use of hair samples center on the obtaining of the
samples from a suspect and the possible Fourth Amendment unreasonable search
and seizure. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held in Coddington v.
Evanko (2005) that taking hair samples from a visible part of a suspect's body does
not invade any reasonable expectation of privacy, and is thus not a Fourth
Amendment search.
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A) Court of common pleas model. B) Consolidation model. C) Appellate model. D) Judgment model.
What is an advocacy group?
What will be an ideal response?
Although justification of a criminal act often is personal, some courts will allow a defense of justification to be raised by an accomplice
A. only when a principal makes the same defense as the accomplice. B. but not by a principal. C. as well as by a principal. D. only when a principal makes the same claim as the accomplice.
The report that provided a major reevaluation of the needs of crime victims and the role of law enforcement in working towards acceptance was called:
a. New Directions from the Field
b. Community Solutions Initiatives Report
c. President's Task Force on Police Activity Report
d. None of the above