Officer Jones Is Trying to Learn More About a Suspect

question 63

Multiple Choice

Officer Jones is trying to learn more about a suspect in a deadly right-wing terrorist attack targeting a local Mosque. To try and understand more about her suspect, she sneaks into his business office late at night without a warrant to take a look around. Which piece of legislation gave her the right to take a "sneak and peak" without a warrant?

• A) Military Commissions Act
• B) USAPATRIOT Act
• C) The Posse Comitatus Act
• D) No legislation permits searches without warrants, so Officer Jones has violated her suspect's 4^th Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.

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Definitions:

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