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TLETA Class 1879 Week 1 Test Law Questions and Correct Answers (2024/2025), Exams of Public Law

Texas State Technical College-West TexasPublic Law

A comprehensive overview of legal concepts and principles relevant to tleta class 1879. It includes a series of questions and answers covering topics such as the state court system, levels of criminal proof, constitutional amendments, police encounters, search warrants, and the exclusionary rule. Designed to help students prepare for their first week test in the course.

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2024/2025

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TLETA Class 1879 Week 1 Test Law Questions and
Correct Answers (2024/2025)
1. Steps in State Court System: 1. Arrest 2. General Sessions 3.
Grand Jury 4. Trial
5. Appeal
2.Levels of Criminal Proof: 1. Mere Suspicion 2. Reasonable
Suspicion 3. Proba- ble Cause 4. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
3.Where do municipal traffic cases go?: Municipal court
4.Where do defendant appeals go?: Civil circuit court judge
5.Capias: Bench Warrant
6.First Amendment: 5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly,
petition
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Correct Answers (2024/2025)

  1. Steps in State Court System: 1. Arrest 2. General Sessions 3. Grand Jury 4. Trial
  2. Appeal
  3. Levels of Criminal Proof: 1. Mere Suspicion 2. Reasonable Suspicion 3. Proba- ble Cause 4. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
  4. Where do municipal traffic cases go?: Municipal court
  5. Where do defendant appeals go?: Civil circuit court judge
  6. Capias: Bench Warrant
  7. First Amendment: 5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition
  1. Second Amendment: Right to bear arms
  2. Fourth Amendment: Protects against unreasonable search and seizure (per- sons, possession, property, papers)
  3. Fifth Amendment: protects against self-incrimination
  4. Sixth Amendment: Right to speedy trial and to face accuser; protects against double jeopardy
  5. Eight Amendment: protects against cruel and unusual punishment (excessive bail)
  6. Fourteenth Amendment: States must follow federal criminal precedence; pro- tection of rights
  7. Lineup: placing a suspect in a group for the purpose of being viewed and identified by a witness
  8. Showup: one-on-one confrontation between a suspect and a witness
  1. Posse Comitatus: Community assistance to apprehend felon
  2. Hue and cry: Neighbors helping neighbors
  3. Kin police: Pre-dating 1066; taking care of your own family
  4. Shire-Reeve (Sheriff): Shire: area; reeves: 1 person over 100 tythe; Sheriff was derived from this
  5. What changed in the history of police in 1700s?: Population growth, more crime; taverns, public drunkenness, prostitution became more prevalent; fewer vol- unteering for the watch
  1. What 3 cities began municipal policing in the 1800s?: Boston, NY, Philly
  2. Who was the Father of Modern Day Policing?: Sir Robert Peel (London)
  3. Who was the first female police officer?: Lola Baldwin (1908) from Portland, OR
  4. What occurred in policing in the 1960s?: lack of trust, most turbulent, Viet- nam, Anti-gov.
  5. What occurred in policing in 1990s?: COPS formed (Community-oriented policing system)
  6. What was Theodore Roosevelt's (NY Police Chief) famous quote about crime?: "fighting the war on crime"
  7. Who is protected under the 4th Amendment?: EVERYONE EVEN
  1. What class is first degree murder?: Higher than Class A (automatic 51 years)
  2. If it is not in the law...: it is not an offense
  3. Where is the criminal code located in TCA?: Vol. 7 Title 39
  4. Title 39 Ch. 13: Crimes against persons
  5. Title 39 Ch. 14: Crimes against property
  6. Title 39 Ch. 15: Crimes against Family
  7. Title 39 Ch. 16: Crimes against Admin/Gov't
  8. Title 39 Ch. 17: Crimes against Public Health/Safety
  9. Title 55 Ch. 8: Rules of the Road
  10. Title 55 Ch. 10: Accidents, Arrests, Crimes, and Penalties
  11. How many words is the Fourth Amendment?: 54 words
  12. Do you have privacy in a public bathroom or a public

street?: Public bath- room

  1. Terry v. Ohio: Review case; Detain long enough to confirm/dispel belief
  2. Justice Harlan's Concurrence...Two Requirements: 1. Actual expectation of privacy 2. Expectation must be one that society is willing to expect
  3. Subjective: Perception
  1. TCA 40-6-103 is basically the same as what Amendment?: Fourth Amend- ment
  2. 3 aspects of probable cause: crime, in what place will I be?, what evidence will I think I'll find?
  3. State v. Tuttle: Probable Cause for search warrant can come from totality of circumstances (including hearsay)
  4. Fatal Flaws of a search warrant: 1. Lack of PC 2. Failure to document date, time, officer 3. Less than 3 copies
  5. Who receives the 3 copies of the search warrant?: 1. Left with judge 2. Left with defendant 3. Given back to judge after warrant execution
  6. How many days does a search warrant?: 5 days
  7. When does the search warrant begin?: 12 AM the night after you

get it

  1. Who may execute search warrant?: Only by officer directed by judge per warrant; others may aid in execution
  2. What is required for an execution of a search warrant?: Knock and announce
  3. What will happen if you do not knock and announce?: TN will throw case out!!!!
  4. What are the exceptions of the knock and announce?: 1. Destruction of evidence 2. Safety of Officer 3. Useless Gesture
  5. What do strip searches entail?: Alter clothes to see genitalia, buttons, anus, etc.
  6. When can you not do a strip search?: Traffic and regulatory offenses or misdemeanors unless it involves drugs and weapons
  1. Probable Cause: Can Arrest, get Arrest warrant or Search Warrant
  2. Reasonable Suspicion: Can do Investigative Detention, Traffic stop
  3. Mere Suspicion: can observe and run plate number; CANNOT DETAIN
  4. What is the test used to determine reasonableness under the 4th Amend- ment?: ORT (Objective Reasonableness Test)
  5. When can you search?: Warrant or exception
  6. Exceptions to searching with warrant (look over each individually): 1. Con- sent 2.Search incident to arrest 3.Frisk (Terry Stop) 4.Exigent circumstances 5.Plain view

6.Open fields 7.Protective sweep

  1. Other exceptions to search warrant law: Border patrol, THP commercial ve- hicle inspections, prisons, airports, military bases, TWRA inspections
  2. Are terry searches the same as stops?: NO!
  3. Scope of Search incident to arrest: a full search of the arrestee's person and the nearby physical area that was under the immediate control of the arrestee (lunge area)
  4. Aguilar-Spinelli Test/2-Prong Test: affidavit must detail informant's credibility and basis of knowledge
  5. Types of Informants: Fellow officer, citizen, criminal
  6. What happened in 2016 in reference to the 2-prong test?:

to the crime they are arrested for (contemporaneous with arrest)

  1. What is the purpose of inventory?: To protect property of suspect being taken into custody
  2. Can closed or locked compartments be opened for inventory?: No (unless department policy requires it)
  3. What is the Carroll Doctrine?: A warrant less search of a motor vehicle by a peace officer who has probable cause to believe the vehicle contains incriminating items subject to seizure is not unreasonable under the fourth amendment (due to exigency of the inherent mobility of motor vehicle) Carroll vs US 1925
  4. Can you search a motor home?: if it has license plate and it is mobile. on blocks, no

knowingly given, can withdraw and limit at any time, can decide scope of search (over what they have standing of)

104. Moore's cell phone number for questions or comments about quizlet: - 6154976160