MPOETC CORE MAIN EXAMINATION SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Mapp v Ohio - ✔✔Exclusionary rule: prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence
in a criminal trial
✔✔US v Leon - ✔✔Good faith exception: evidence won't be surprised if acted in good
faith
✔✔Nix v. Williams - ✔✔Inevitable discovery: prove illegally seized evidence would have
been found sooner or later
✔✔Katz v. US - ✔✔Expanded 4th amendment to include conversation, expectation of
privacy
✔✔Illinois v Wardlow - ✔✔Mere presence in crime area isn't sufficient for terry stop
✔✔Illinois v Gates - ✔✔Totality of circumstances test
✔✔staleness - ✔✔Normally 7 days max, considered unreliable after 7 days.
✔✔Who can issue warrants in cases of arrest? - ✔✔Issuing authority within judicial
district
, ✔✔Subject to seizure - ✔✔Fruits, instruments, contraband, other criminal evidence
✔✔Reasonable knock and announce wait time - ✔✔2 announcements and 45 seconds
✔✔Exceptions to search warrant - ✔✔Existent circumstances, plain view, cars, smell
and feel
✔✔Use of force amendments - ✔✔4, 8, 14
✔✔Golden Rule Test - ✔✔Use only force necessary to affect arrest, when suspect
stops, so do you
✔✔Tennessee v Garner - ✔✔Shooting of an unarmed,, nonviolent fleeing felony
suspect violates the 4th Amendment
✔✔Graham v Connor - ✔✔Reasonableness of use of force judged from viewpoint of
another officer on scene
✔✔Brower v Inyo County - ✔✔Excessive force: Vehicle deadly force is excessive when
wanted for a nonviolent crime.
✔✔When to use deadly force - ✔✔Armed, fleeting a crime where deadly force was used
or threatened, immediate arrest is necessary to prevent suspect from escaping
✔✔Commonwealth v Mocoliocco - ✔✔Ethnic intimidation/possession of instruments of a
crime
✔✔Georgia v Randolph - ✔✔Without a warrant police have no constitutional right to
search a house
✔✔Process of a crime scene - ✔✔- Secure
- Interview
- Examine
- Photograph
- Bag & Tag
✔✔prima facie - ✔✔sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved
or rebutted
✔✔reasonable suspicion - ✔✔a suspicion based on specific facts; less than probable
cause. Sufficient to believe criminal activity is occurring
✔✔Force continuum - ✔✔1. Presence
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Mapp v Ohio - ✔✔Exclusionary rule: prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence
in a criminal trial
✔✔US v Leon - ✔✔Good faith exception: evidence won't be surprised if acted in good
faith
✔✔Nix v. Williams - ✔✔Inevitable discovery: prove illegally seized evidence would have
been found sooner or later
✔✔Katz v. US - ✔✔Expanded 4th amendment to include conversation, expectation of
privacy
✔✔Illinois v Wardlow - ✔✔Mere presence in crime area isn't sufficient for terry stop
✔✔Illinois v Gates - ✔✔Totality of circumstances test
✔✔staleness - ✔✔Normally 7 days max, considered unreliable after 7 days.
✔✔Who can issue warrants in cases of arrest? - ✔✔Issuing authority within judicial
district
, ✔✔Subject to seizure - ✔✔Fruits, instruments, contraband, other criminal evidence
✔✔Reasonable knock and announce wait time - ✔✔2 announcements and 45 seconds
✔✔Exceptions to search warrant - ✔✔Existent circumstances, plain view, cars, smell
and feel
✔✔Use of force amendments - ✔✔4, 8, 14
✔✔Golden Rule Test - ✔✔Use only force necessary to affect arrest, when suspect
stops, so do you
✔✔Tennessee v Garner - ✔✔Shooting of an unarmed,, nonviolent fleeing felony
suspect violates the 4th Amendment
✔✔Graham v Connor - ✔✔Reasonableness of use of force judged from viewpoint of
another officer on scene
✔✔Brower v Inyo County - ✔✔Excessive force: Vehicle deadly force is excessive when
wanted for a nonviolent crime.
✔✔When to use deadly force - ✔✔Armed, fleeting a crime where deadly force was used
or threatened, immediate arrest is necessary to prevent suspect from escaping
✔✔Commonwealth v Mocoliocco - ✔✔Ethnic intimidation/possession of instruments of a
crime
✔✔Georgia v Randolph - ✔✔Without a warrant police have no constitutional right to
search a house
✔✔Process of a crime scene - ✔✔- Secure
- Interview
- Examine
- Photograph
- Bag & Tag
✔✔prima facie - ✔✔sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved
or rebutted
✔✔reasonable suspicion - ✔✔a suspicion based on specific facts; less than probable
cause. Sufficient to believe criminal activity is occurring
✔✔Force continuum - ✔✔1. Presence
