Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. If a suspect has so much as a finger or a toe outside a doorway to the home, the arrest is no longer considered an arrest “in the home.”
2. Police may make a warrantless arrest if they reasonably believe that to fail to do so would place the public safety in jeopardy.
3. Police are allowed to enter a home and make an arrest without a search or an arrest warrant in order to prevent the imminent destruction of evidence.
4. According to the old fleeing-felon rule, private citizens could use deadly force to stop a felon and were even immune from criminal and civil liability if they were proven to have been incorrect about the nature of the individual killed.
5. Stemming from Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, the U.S. Supreme Court opted not to mandate the rules regarding arrests and misdemeanors but rather left it to the states to decide.
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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