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Practice question: Checkpoint Searches

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

Officers conduct an otherwise minimally intrusive public-bus inspection but take no precautions against planting evidence. They claim brevity alone satisfies every Saluday condition. Which is correct?
  1. Courts must also be convinced that precautions existed against planting evidence
  2. Brevity automatically satisfies every safeguard
  3. The planting-evidence condition is expressly abolished
  4. Only the bus’s age matters
  5. A checkpoint location conclusively proves chain integrity

Legal references

  • Saluday v People, GR215305, April3,2018, MAIN opinion, public-transport guidelines and private-use exclusions: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2018/apr2018/gr_215305_2018.html

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