Sergeant NFLST Exam Study Guide Questions with
Correct Answers | Verified 2025
/ 14th ammendment - Answer-due process of law
/.Arrest - Answer-intention, authority, custody
/.Arrest warrant - Answer-1. Name of the state
2. Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of that state)
3. Person who will be arrested
4. Offense Committed
5. Date, time, place of occurrence
6. Name of victim
7. Description of Offense
/.Mapp v. Ohio - Answer-Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states
(evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
/.Search Warrant Exceptions - Answer-Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle inventory,
incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view
/.Chimel v. California (1969) - 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) - Answer-movable vehicle rule
/.Arizona v. Gant (2009) - Answer-can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe will
find evidence of the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
/.inductive reasoning - Answer-factual and logical explanation of the crime
/.deductive reasoning - Answer-hypothesis
/.neighborhood canvas - Answer-helpful in about 20% of investigations
/.vehicle canvas - 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 - Answer-primary is where first criminal act occurred,
secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.
/.Evidence in "open view" - Answer-processed before other items/bodies to make sure
no undue damage is done to families by media or common talk.
, /.3 kinds of evidence - 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.
/.Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an area after the
boundary has been determined - Answer-Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone,
Pie/wheel
/.Digital photography (far/medium/close) - Answer-Orientation - far, Relationship -
medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
/.Class characteristics - Answer-not completely original, like the print of a Nike shoe
/.Individual characteristics - Answer-fingerprints/footprints, etc.
/.Residue prints - Answer-prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.
/.Impressions - Answer-prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.
/.Plastic prints - Answer-prints left in something "tacky" like silly putty, fatty foods,
caulking
/.Patent/contaminated/visible - Answer-fingers contaminated with an oily substance
touch a clean surface
/.Latent/invisible - Answer-unseen or hidden prints that are developed to expose them
/.Forensic ondontology - Answer-intersection of dentistry and criminal law, i.e. bite mark
analysis and identification.
/.Signature - Answer-The striations on a bullet after passing through the bore of the
barrel of a rifle or pistol
/.Touch DNA - Answer-small amounts of DNA evidence left from suspect skin shavings
after touching something.
/.Handwriting samples - Answer-15 to 20 samples should be collected from suspects
/.Objective of interrogation: (importance goes up as the difficulty goes up) - Answer-
Obtain valuable facts, Eliminate the innocent, Identify the guilty, Obtain a confession
Correct Answers | Verified 2025
/ 14th ammendment - Answer-due process of law
/.Arrest - Answer-intention, authority, custody
/.Arrest warrant - Answer-1. Name of the state
2. Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of that state)
3. Person who will be arrested
4. Offense Committed
5. Date, time, place of occurrence
6. Name of victim
7. Description of Offense
/.Mapp v. Ohio - Answer-Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states
(evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
/.Search Warrant Exceptions - Answer-Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle inventory,
incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view
/.Chimel v. California (1969) - 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) - Answer-movable vehicle rule
/.Arizona v. Gant (2009) - Answer-can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe will
find evidence of the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
/.inductive reasoning - Answer-factual and logical explanation of the crime
/.deductive reasoning - Answer-hypothesis
/.neighborhood canvas - Answer-helpful in about 20% of investigations
/.vehicle canvas - 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 - Answer-primary is where first criminal act occurred,
secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.
/.Evidence in "open view" - Answer-processed before other items/bodies to make sure
no undue damage is done to families by media or common talk.
, /.3 kinds of evidence - 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.
/.Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an area after the
boundary has been determined - Answer-Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone,
Pie/wheel
/.Digital photography (far/medium/close) - Answer-Orientation - far, Relationship -
medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
/.Class characteristics - Answer-not completely original, like the print of a Nike shoe
/.Individual characteristics - Answer-fingerprints/footprints, etc.
/.Residue prints - Answer-prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.
/.Impressions - Answer-prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.
/.Plastic prints - Answer-prints left in something "tacky" like silly putty, fatty foods,
caulking
/.Patent/contaminated/visible - Answer-fingers contaminated with an oily substance
touch a clean surface
/.Latent/invisible - Answer-unseen or hidden prints that are developed to expose them
/.Forensic ondontology - Answer-intersection of dentistry and criminal law, i.e. bite mark
analysis and identification.
/.Signature - Answer-The striations on a bullet after passing through the bore of the
barrel of a rifle or pistol
/.Touch DNA - Answer-small amounts of DNA evidence left from suspect skin shavings
after touching something.
/.Handwriting samples - Answer-15 to 20 samples should be collected from suspects
/.Objective of interrogation: (importance goes up as the difficulty goes up) - Answer-
Obtain valuable facts, Eliminate the innocent, Identify the guilty, Obtain a confession
