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LETI - Missouri POST TEST [2024]
Questions and Answers
What is the 1st amendment? - Ans:✔✔-Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
What is the 4th amendment? - Ans:✔✔-Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
What is the 5th amendment? - Ans:✔✔-The right to remain silent, due process, right to not self
incriminate.
What is the 6th amendment? - Ans:✔✔-Right to a speedy and public trial.
What is the 8th amendment? - Ans:✔✔-No cruel or unusual punishment
What is the 10th amendment? - Ans:✔✔-States rights
What crimes have no time limitations? - Ans:✔✔-murder, 1st degree rape, forcible rape, attempted rape
in the 1st degree, sodomy 1st, attempted forcible sodomy, any class A felony
What is a crime? - Ans:✔✔-Criminal charges/case
What is a Tort? - Ans:✔✔-Civil Case
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Criminal case evidence must be: - Ans:✔✔-Beyond reasonable doubt
Civil case is brought by the: - Ans:✔✔-preponderance of evidence
What is the exclusionary rule? - Ans:✔✔-All Evidence Which Is Obtained By You Illegally Is Inadmissible
What does a judge issue and set? - Ans:✔✔-Warrant / Bail
What are the 10 steps to the criminal process? - Ans:✔✔-1. Detention (arrest)
2. Investigation
3. Booking
4. Arrest Warrant Application
5. Charging Suspect
6. Issuance of Arrest Warrant
7. Arraignment
8. Preliminary/Grand Jury Hearing
9. Discovery
10. Trial
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For detention you need: - Ans:✔✔-Reasonable suspicion
For arrest you need: - Ans:✔✔-Probable cause
What is reasonable suspcison? - Ans:✔✔-Facts leading a reasonable officer/person to suspect a crime
has been committed and it was committed by the person in question.
What is probable cause? - Ans:✔✔-
If you have probably cause you are how sure? - Ans:✔✔-51%
Any infraction must be filed within: - Ans:✔✔-6 months
What is considered a prior offender? - Ans:✔✔-one who has been found guilty of one felony
What is considered a persistent offender? - Ans:✔✔-one who has been found guilty or two or more
felonies committed at different times
Is booking a administrative procedure? - Ans:✔✔-Yes
What is a bill of indictment? - Ans:✔✔-1. Written by the prosecutor
2. States the facts of the case and the charges that will be pressed if grand jury agrees that PC exists.
3.If the grand jury agrees that PC exists then they find the indictment to be a true bill.
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What did the Terry v Ohio case cover? - Ans:✔✔-Search incident to arrest and ability to search if
reasonable belief the suspect is armed and dangerous regardless of probable cause to arrest.
What is a frisk? - Ans:✔✔-Limited search of the outer clothing for the purpose of finding weapons.
What is 'Fresh pursuit?' - Ans:✔✔-A legal doctrine that permits a Law-Enforcement Officer to arrest a
fleeing suspect who crosses jurisdictional lines.
When does fresh pursuit stop? - Ans:✔✔-When the officer looses sight of the fleeing suspect and is out
of their jurisdiction.
What are the four types of abuse? - Ans:✔✔-physical, emotional, financial, sexual
What is physical injury? - Ans:✔✔-slight impairment of any function of the body or temporary loss of use
of any part of the body
What is serious physical injury? - Ans:✔✔-A physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or
which causes death or serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or
protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ
What is an admission? - Ans:✔✔-Agreement to a fact or facts that tends to suggest guilt without actually
confessing to a crime.
What is an confession? - Ans:✔✔-A voluntary admission of guilt about a persons involvement in a crime.
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