When Is a Person under Arrest?

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The courts have held that a suspect is seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment whenever a law enforcement officer restricts his or her freedom to leave.
? Seizure by submission to a show of legal authority. The test for whether there has been a show of authority is objective— whether a reasonable person in the suspect’s place would feel that he or she was not free to ignore an officer’s request and walk away.
? Seizure by physical restraint. If the suspect does not submit to an officer’s show of legal authority, no seizure occurs until the suspect is actually brought under the officer’s control. The free-to-leave test has been repeatedly adopted by the court as the test for a seizure.

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a. The code of Hammurabi. b. Draconian law. c. The Solomon code. d. Roman law

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Which of the following tendencies are often found on the far and fringe right-wing?

a. Antigovernment sentiment. b. Racial supremacist sentiment. c. Conspiracy theories. d. All of the above.

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