LEO Exam 2 with Right Answers
Inhalants - ✅✅ Common household products such as model airplane glue,
hairspray, cleaning fluids, etc.
NOS, Spray, Huff
Narcotic analgesic side effects: - ✅✅ • Euphoria
• Drowsiness
• Constricted pupils
Stimulant side effects: - ✅✅ • Euphoria
• Dilated pupils
• Excitation
Cannabis side effects: - ✅✅ • Disorientation
• Euphoria
• Relaxed inhibitions
• Muscle tremors
• Eyelid tremors
Depressant side effects: - ✅✅ • Slurred speech
• Disorientation
• Drunken behavior
,Dissociative anesthetic side effects: - ✅✅ • Hallucinations
• Combative
• Chemical odor
Narcotic analgesic side effects: - ✅✅ • Euphoria
• Low-raspy speech
• Dry mouth
Inhalant side effects: - ✅✅ Disoriented, chemicals on hand and face, flushed
face, uncommunicative
Eye indicators of drug impairment: - ✅✅ • Pupil size
• Nystagmus
• Reddened conjunctiva
What does heroin look like? - ✅✅ A black-brown tarry goo in unrefined form, to
a consistent light-brown powder
What does cocaine/ crack look like? - ✅✅ Off-white crystallized powder and/or
small nuggets with jagged edges
What does marijuana look like? - ✅✅ Green leafy substance with stems and
seeds
What do amphetamines and methamphetamines look like? - ✅✅ Pills and/or
crystallized powder
,Responsibilities of Medical Examiner include: - ✅✅ • Determine cause of death
• Determine manner of death
• Obtain positive identification
• Provide expert testimony in court
Operation and staffing of the Office of the Medical Examiner and the capabilities
of the office. - ✅✅ ♦ OME is a subsidiary of the Utah Department of Health and
has statewide jurisdiction
♦ OME Staff Positions
• Forensic Pathologists
• Deputy Medical Examiners
• Investigators
• Forensic Anthropology Consultants
• Forensic Odontology Consultants
Who can pronounce someone dead? - ✅✅ Any reasonable person
Who can sign a death certificate? - ✅✅ A physician licensed to practice in the
state of Utah
Attended/Unattended deaths - ✅✅ • Attended death is a death which results from
natural causes and where the physician has seen the patient within the last 30 days
• A regular physician may sign the death certificate on an attended death
• All other cases are considered unattended and must be reported to the Medical
Examiner
, Appropriate and inappropriate activities by officer on the scene of a dead body: -
✅✅ When an officer arrives at the scene and a death has been determined, all
activity involving the body should cease
• Officers should not allow movement, cleansing, viewing by family or other
activities that will interfere with the investigation
• Appropriate activities, such as viewing by family, may be allowed after the on-
scene investigation is concluded
Officer responsibilities at the scene of a dead body: - ✅✅ Initial duties:
• If the death appears to be natural, question family, friends, witnesses and look for
medications that will establish medical history
• Contact the attending physician and determine whether they will sign the death
certificate
Determine what the "scene" is
♦ Secure and restrict unnecessary movements and contamination
♦ Obtain statements from the people present
Secure and preserve evidence
Extra officer responsibilities at the scene of a dead body: - ✅✅ • An attended
death may be released to the mortuary of the family's choosing and need not be
reported to OME
• All other cases must be reported
• If you have any doubts or questions, call OME for assistance• For most cases that
are under the jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner, an OME investigator will
respond to the scene
Initial responding officer should wait for the OME investigator before collecting
or processing evidence
• OME is entitled to the body and anything associated with the body
Inhalants - ✅✅ Common household products such as model airplane glue,
hairspray, cleaning fluids, etc.
NOS, Spray, Huff
Narcotic analgesic side effects: - ✅✅ • Euphoria
• Drowsiness
• Constricted pupils
Stimulant side effects: - ✅✅ • Euphoria
• Dilated pupils
• Excitation
Cannabis side effects: - ✅✅ • Disorientation
• Euphoria
• Relaxed inhibitions
• Muscle tremors
• Eyelid tremors
Depressant side effects: - ✅✅ • Slurred speech
• Disorientation
• Drunken behavior
,Dissociative anesthetic side effects: - ✅✅ • Hallucinations
• Combative
• Chemical odor
Narcotic analgesic side effects: - ✅✅ • Euphoria
• Low-raspy speech
• Dry mouth
Inhalant side effects: - ✅✅ Disoriented, chemicals on hand and face, flushed
face, uncommunicative
Eye indicators of drug impairment: - ✅✅ • Pupil size
• Nystagmus
• Reddened conjunctiva
What does heroin look like? - ✅✅ A black-brown tarry goo in unrefined form, to
a consistent light-brown powder
What does cocaine/ crack look like? - ✅✅ Off-white crystallized powder and/or
small nuggets with jagged edges
What does marijuana look like? - ✅✅ Green leafy substance with stems and
seeds
What do amphetamines and methamphetamines look like? - ✅✅ Pills and/or
crystallized powder
,Responsibilities of Medical Examiner include: - ✅✅ • Determine cause of death
• Determine manner of death
• Obtain positive identification
• Provide expert testimony in court
Operation and staffing of the Office of the Medical Examiner and the capabilities
of the office. - ✅✅ ♦ OME is a subsidiary of the Utah Department of Health and
has statewide jurisdiction
♦ OME Staff Positions
• Forensic Pathologists
• Deputy Medical Examiners
• Investigators
• Forensic Anthropology Consultants
• Forensic Odontology Consultants
Who can pronounce someone dead? - ✅✅ Any reasonable person
Who can sign a death certificate? - ✅✅ A physician licensed to practice in the
state of Utah
Attended/Unattended deaths - ✅✅ • Attended death is a death which results from
natural causes and where the physician has seen the patient within the last 30 days
• A regular physician may sign the death certificate on an attended death
• All other cases are considered unattended and must be reported to the Medical
Examiner
, Appropriate and inappropriate activities by officer on the scene of a dead body: -
✅✅ When an officer arrives at the scene and a death has been determined, all
activity involving the body should cease
• Officers should not allow movement, cleansing, viewing by family or other
activities that will interfere with the investigation
• Appropriate activities, such as viewing by family, may be allowed after the on-
scene investigation is concluded
Officer responsibilities at the scene of a dead body: - ✅✅ Initial duties:
• If the death appears to be natural, question family, friends, witnesses and look for
medications that will establish medical history
• Contact the attending physician and determine whether they will sign the death
certificate
Determine what the "scene" is
♦ Secure and restrict unnecessary movements and contamination
♦ Obtain statements from the people present
Secure and preserve evidence
Extra officer responsibilities at the scene of a dead body: - ✅✅ • An attended
death may be released to the mortuary of the family's choosing and need not be
reported to OME
• All other cases must be reported
• If you have any doubts or questions, call OME for assistance• For most cases that
are under the jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner, an OME investigator will
respond to the scene
Initial responding officer should wait for the OME investigator before collecting
or processing evidence
• OME is entitled to the body and anything associated with the body
