Warrantless searches at the following locations do not violate the 4th Amendment:  

Police officers from a department collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have identified five houses where undocumented live.  Obeying the instructions of their supervisors, they stormed those homes and arrested 15 people. Were the arrests lawful? Explain! (80-100 words) Do not be content with a “fast-food” answer!

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1. Read this story from St George News: UHP: Illinois woman arrested following high-speed chase that spanned 60 miles in Southern UtahWritten by Jeff RichardsJuly 21, 2024 CEDAR CITY — A 26-year-old Illinois woman was arrested on Friday evening after leading police on a 60-mile high-speed chase along Interstate 15 in Southern Utah. Ananasia Moshea Ivory was booked into Beaver County Jail on suspicion of failing to respond to an officer’s signal to stop, a third-degree felony, along with misdemeanor counts of reckless driving, possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia. According to the probable cause statement filed in support of Ivory’s arrest, the incident began at about 6:50 p.m. when a Utah Highway Patrol trooper in Iron County measured on his radar a black Honda Accord traveling northbound at 119 mph. Because that trooper was en route to an unrelated crash and unable to follow the Honda, he called another trooper who was near the Iron-Beaver county line and advised him to be on the lookout for the suspect vehicle. “I made my way to mile marker 102 on I-15, set up in the median, and began to look for the suspect vehicle,” the second trooper wrote, adding, “I observed the suspect vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed and locked its speed at 113 mph.” The second trooper then activated his overhead emergency lights and sirens in an attempt to get the Honda driver to pull over. Although the driver initially did slow down and move over to the right lane, she allegedly then moved back into the left lane and accelerated. The ensuing chase spanned approximately 60 miles, through Beaver County and into Millard County before officers were able to perform a felony stop near mile marker 165. Speeds during the pursuit ranged from 65 mph to 120 mph, the arresting trooper wrote in the affidavit. After the stop was conducted at approximately 7:40 p.m., the driver was reportedly taken into custody without further incident. Two agents from Utah State Bureau of Investigation arrived on the scene and, after successfully applying for a search warrant, allegedly found an unspecified quantity of marijuana in the vehicle, along with drug paraphernalia. Ivory, who is listed as being from Park Forest, Illinois, is being held in Beaver County Jail as she awaits her initial court appearance. This report is based on preliminary statements from court documents or law enforcement officials and may not contain the full scope of findings. Persons arrested or charged are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law or as otherwise decided by a trier-of-fact.   2. Answer this question: Was it necessary for the two Utah State Bureau of Investigation to apply for a search warrant? Was it redundant? Explain your answer (100 words)  

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Some police officers in the country still have that bad habit of mirandizing people when they arrest them. Why is this practice wrong? Your reasoning must be based on the Miranda Rights. (80-100 words). Please do NOT write more than 100 words!

INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Read this short article: EXAM 3 CASE 1.pdf   BEAVER — A minor traffic violation led to a significant drug bust in Beaver County on Tuesday, A car was pulled over about 6:20 a.m.on I-15 just north of Beaver for an illegal window tint and failing to illuminate the rear license plate, according to a police booking affidavit. When a Utah Highway Patrol trooper questioned the driver about his travel plans, he said he and his passenger “were headed to Utah to visit family but didn’t know where. He only knew it was close to Salt Lake,” the affidavit states. The trooper continued to ask various questions but got inconsistent answers. When the driver consented to having the car searched, troopers found a handgun in the trunk and magazines in the center console and driver’s door. “Also in the trunk was a backpack that contained a tobacco bag with raw marijuana inside. Behind the carpet in the trunk on the driver side were two large plastic wrapped packages of blue M30 pills consistent with those containing fentanyl,” according to the affidavit. After the car and its contents were seized and taken to the UHP office in Beaver, the pills were weighed “and showed a total weight of approximately 4 pounds which calculates to approximately 18,000 pills,” police stated. Aubrey Gray, 24, and Nehemiah Washington, 23, were each arrested for investigation of drug possession with intent to distribute. Gray was also booked into the Beaver County Jail for investigation of additional charges of being a restricted person in possession of a gun, possession of drug paraphernalia, marijuana possession and two traffic infractions. 2. Based exclusively on the information provided, is the evidence admissible at trial? Explain your answer (100-120 words)  

Explain what a Gerstein hearing is.

Name only two differences between the Gerstein hearing and the Preliminary hearing.

The police decided to run a sting operation from a budget motel downtown. They have posted sex ads on Craigslist and were flooded with so many phone calls that they had to add three more female officers to take the calls. The playbook for this sting operation was very simple and worked as planned: each john arrives and is greeted by a nice looking female; he pays the fee, and the female officer goes to the bathroom to undress while the john starts undressing as well. That’s when the officers enter the room and arrest the offender. A total of 50 johns were arrested.  A few of them decided to challenge the sting operation under the entrapment defense. Apply the subjective test or the objective test to explain why the johns will succeed/not succeed in their claim that the arrest was illegal