MPOETC Certification Exam | Questions
and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade
A (2023/ 2024 Update)
QUESTION
What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that an Officer's reasonable perspective of a scene will be
judged rather than 20/20 hindsight of others?
Answer:
graham v. connor
QUESTION
What term applies to any evidence found through illegal conduct that is suppressed, regardless of
the relationship between the act and the seizure?
Answer:
fruit of the poisonous tree
QUESTION
What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled on the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary
rule?
Answer:
nix v. williams
QUESTION
What is the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule?
Answer:
,us v. leon
QUESTION
What type of commitment pertains to spending 24 hours in a mental institute, a thorough
psychiatric evaluation, or being taken to a Magisterial judge?
Answer:
involuntary commitment
QUESTION
Minor Court, Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, Pennsylvania State
Superior Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Answer:
order of courts
QUESTION
If a Police Officer is serving a P.F.A. and there are firearms present, where must the firearms be
taken?
Answer:
sheriff department
QUESTION
A Police Officer responds to a domestic disturbance for loud noise. Upon knocking on the door,
the Police Officer notices a powdered substance in baggies on the table when the resident
answers. If they do not get a warrant, what should the Officer do?
Answer:
take immediately
, QUESTION
Upon entering a house, the wife who lives there grants permission to the police to search her
husband's unlocked closet. Will her permission suffice?
Answer:
yes
QUESTION
What is considered a "Night Time Warrant" in the State of Pennsylvania?
Answer:
11 pm
QUESTION
An 18 year old goes on a date with a "14 year old" who is actually 13. He fondles her breast.
What 18 Pa.C.S. statute is he charged with?
Answer:
indecent assault
QUESTION
A person knocks another individual to the ground and steals their purse with only $1.00 in it.
What criminal status is this offense considered?
Answer:
robbery
QUESTION
A restaurant offers a gratuity to a Police Officer and foots the bill on the house. What should the
officer do?
Answer:
and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade
A (2023/ 2024 Update)
QUESTION
What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that an Officer's reasonable perspective of a scene will be
judged rather than 20/20 hindsight of others?
Answer:
graham v. connor
QUESTION
What term applies to any evidence found through illegal conduct that is suppressed, regardless of
the relationship between the act and the seizure?
Answer:
fruit of the poisonous tree
QUESTION
What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled on the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary
rule?
Answer:
nix v. williams
QUESTION
What is the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule?
Answer:
,us v. leon
QUESTION
What type of commitment pertains to spending 24 hours in a mental institute, a thorough
psychiatric evaluation, or being taken to a Magisterial judge?
Answer:
involuntary commitment
QUESTION
Minor Court, Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, Pennsylvania State
Superior Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Answer:
order of courts
QUESTION
If a Police Officer is serving a P.F.A. and there are firearms present, where must the firearms be
taken?
Answer:
sheriff department
QUESTION
A Police Officer responds to a domestic disturbance for loud noise. Upon knocking on the door,
the Police Officer notices a powdered substance in baggies on the table when the resident
answers. If they do not get a warrant, what should the Officer do?
Answer:
take immediately
, QUESTION
Upon entering a house, the wife who lives there grants permission to the police to search her
husband's unlocked closet. Will her permission suffice?
Answer:
yes
QUESTION
What is considered a "Night Time Warrant" in the State of Pennsylvania?
Answer:
11 pm
QUESTION
An 18 year old goes on a date with a "14 year old" who is actually 13. He fondles her breast.
What 18 Pa.C.S. statute is he charged with?
Answer:
indecent assault
QUESTION
A person knocks another individual to the ground and steals their purse with only $1.00 in it.
What criminal status is this offense considered?
Answer:
robbery
QUESTION
A restaurant offers a gratuity to a Police Officer and foots the bill on the house. What should the
officer do?
Answer:
