SERGEANT EXAM NFLST - 14th ammendment - correct answer- due process o...

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SERGEANT EXAM NFLST

ACTUAL EXAM WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.

14th ammendment - correct answer- due process of law

Arrest - correct answer- intention, authority, custody

Arrest warrant - correct answer- 1. Name of the state

• Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of

that state)

• Person who will be arrested
• Offense Committed
• Date, time, place of occurrence
• Name of victim
• Description of Offense

Mapp v. Ohio - correct answer- Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)

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Search Warrant Exceptions - correct answer- Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle inventory, incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view

Chimel v. California (1969) - correct answer- search is valid of a person and area under him immediate control form which he could produce a weapon or destroy evidence

Carroll v. U.S. (1925) - correct answer- movable vehicle rule

Arizona v. Gant (2009) - correct answer- can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe will find evidence of the offense.Only in passenger compartment.

inductive reasoning - correct answer- factual and logical explanation of the crime

deductive reasoning - correct answer- hypothesis

neighborhood canvas - correct answer- helpful in about 20% of investigations 2 / 4

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vehicle canvas - correct answer- get description, location, plate of vehicles in the area with description of anything suspicious ie blood, bullet holes, possible evidence.

Primary v. secondary scenes - correct answer- primary is where first criminal act occurred, secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.

Evidence in "open view" - correct answer- processed before other items/bodies to make sure no undue damage is done to families by media or common talk.

• kinds of evidence - correct answer- Corpus delicti evidence -

evidence that is needed to prove the commission of the crime

Associative - connects the suspect to the scene or victim/ or connects the scene or victim to the suspect

Tracing - identification and location of the suspect such as a discarded ID at the scene.

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Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an area after the boundary has been determined - correct answer- Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone, Pie/wheel

Digital photography (far/medium/close) - correct answer- Orientation - far, Relationship - medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence

Class characteristics - correct answer- not completely original, like the print of a Nike shoe

Individual characteristics - correct answer- fingerprints/footprints, etc.

Residue prints - correct answer- prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.

Impressions - correct answer- prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.

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