1. Why is it important for criminal law paralegals and students to understand the law on search and seizure?

3. What is the significance of Katz v. U.S. in determining what areas are protected by the Fourth Amendment and what areas are not? Explain how this has been applied to specific location and property.

4. What is needed for a search warrant to be valid?

6. What is the current standard for the use of informant information for probable cause?

8. Why is a magistrate's approval for a warrant so important?

11. What precautions are needed to make a police checkpoints legal under the Fourth Amendment?

12. What are the significant issues that must be addressed in a consent to search case?

13. What laws govern the use of electronic surveillance in the United States?

14. What is the rationale for the Supreme Court's holding that secret agents do not come under the protection of the Fourth Amendment?

16. What are the issues in the following case? Police officers execute a search warrant without knocking or otherwise announcing their presence. They had received a tip seventy-two hours earlier that the person who resided at the place to be searched had a gun [State v. Watkins (Wis. App. 1993)].