A court's prior permission for the police to search and seize.

• A. Arrest
• B. Warrant
• C. Double jeopardy
• D. Plain view doctrine

Answer: (B)

The concept being tested is a court-issued authorization that allows police to search a specific place for particular items. This is a warrant, which a judge or magistrate grants based on probable cause and limits the search to described locations and items. It protects privacy by ensuring the police don’t search arbitrarily and must be obtained before most searches, unless a recognized exception applies.

Arrest is about taking a person into custody, not about authorizing a search. Double jeopardy is about being tried twice for the same offense, unrelated to searches. The plain view doctrine allows seizure of obvious evidence seen during a lawful observation, but it does not involve prior permission from the court to search.