For each scenario below, please use the following format and write a minimum of two sentences for each of the rationale. You can copy and paste the scenarios and then use the format below in your submission.
Legal – Rationale:
Illegal – Rationale:
Officer Jones is trying to find a convict who escaped from a nearby jail. Going door-to-door in the neighborhood surrounding the jail, he asks permission to enter each house and search it. The Nguyen's allow him to enter their house. Once in the house, the officer sees and seizes an unregistered firearm that is on a bookshelf.
In a neighborhood well known for producing methamphetamines, the police have a warrant to search the basement of one home to find a production lab. Finding nothing in the basement, they perform a protective sweep search on the rest of the house.
While chaperoning a high-school football game, police in Mississippi see a gun on the front seat of a parked car. Opening the car door, they discover not only the gun but also bullets and a knife.
Jody and Chandra attend a keg party where all of those drinking were underage. The police break up the party without arresting anyone. They seize Jody's purse. Inside, they find marijuana and arrest Jody for possession.
Late for work, Diego was driving five miles over the speed limit in an active school zone when pulled over by the police. Ordering Diego out of the car after he refused to identify himself, the police proceed to frisk him and find a small weapon in his jacket pocket.