The First Question to Ask in a Fourth Amendment Case

question 10

Multiple Choice

The first question to ask in a Fourth Amendment case is whether the:

• A)officer action was a stop and frisk.
• B)officer action was unreasonable.
• C)fruit of the police action (that which was obtained)should be excluded.
• D)police were investigating a serious crime. ​

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Definitions:

Statistic

A numerical value that describes a characteristic of a sample.

Regions of Rejection

Areas in a statistical test that, if a test statistic falls within, lead to the rejection of the null hypothesis.

Critical Value

The threshold value that the test statistic must exceed in order for the null hypothesis to be rejected.

Non-rejection

A decision in hypothesis testing where there is not enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis.