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TCOLE State Exam Review Questions
and Answers 2025
A person who in the course of committing theft, intentionally, knowingly or recklessly
causes bodily injury to another or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or
death has committed what offense? -Correct Answer ✔Robbery
A person knowingly causes serious bodily injury to another in the course of committing
theft. According to the penal code, what is the most serious offense committed? -
Correct Answer ✔Aggravated robbery
A person breaks into an attached garage breaks into a vehicle parked in the garage and
steals a 1500 dollar computer from the back seat. What is the most serious offense
committed? -Correct Answer ✔Burglary
A person commits the offense of theft if they_ appropriate property with intent to deprive
the owner of the property. -Correct Answer ✔unlawfully
A person removes a 450 dollar price tag from a retail item and replaces it with a 200
price tag. What offense has been committed? -Correct Answer ✔fraudulent destruction,
removal, or concealment of writing
The primary components of the american criminal justice system are_. -Correct Answer
✔police, courts, and corrections
_is law that defines the personal and property rights of individuals. -Correct Answer
✔civil law
according to the ccp which is not a magistrate?
Recorders of incorporate cities
justices of the peace
supreme court justices
district attorneys -Correct Answer ✔district attorneys
which of the following are not texas peace officers? -Correct Answer ✔ATF
According to the ccp the court of criminal appeals does not: -Correct Answer ✔review
decisions of civil cases
In order to prove a case of public intoxication a person must: -Correct Answer ✔appear
in a public place while intoxicated to a degree the person may endanger him/herself or
another
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a person is in the process of robbing a store when a customer enters and is shot and
killed by the person. what is the most serious offense committed? -Correct Answer
✔capital murder
a person abducts a child and demands a ransom for the child's release. the person gets
scared and releases the child unharmed. what is the most serious crime committed? -
Correct Answer ✔aggravated kidnapping
what offense is committed when a person threatens to harm another by an unlawful act
on account of their service as a witness or public servant? -Correct Answer
✔obstruction or retaliation
a person causes an explosion with the intent to destroy or damage and is reckless
about whether the explosion will endanger the life of some individual. The person has
committed_. -Correct Answer ✔arson
in the case of an exception to an offense the burden of proof lies with the _. -Correct
Answer ✔prosecuting attorney
a person acts _ with respect to the nature of their conduct when it is the conscious
objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result -Correct Answer
✔intentionally
a person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the offense is_
under duress
intentionally
recklessly
by his own conduct -Correct Answer ✔committed by his own conduct
what is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the actor was compelled by threat of
serious bodily injury to engage in the proscribed conduct? -Correct Answer ✔duress
a mistake of fact is _ -Correct Answer ✔a defense to prosecution
The poisonous tree doctrine was affirmed in -Correct Answer ✔wong sun v US
you can frisk if there is _ that the suspect may be in possession of a weapon -Correct
Answer ✔reasonable fear (terry v ohio)
when a search is conducted after a lawful arrest, within immediate control and
contemporaneous with the arrest, the search is justified under_ to lawful arrest -Correct
Answer ✔incidental
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what is generally considered to be that area of open space surrounding a dwelling,
which is so immediately adjacent to the dwelling that it is part of the house? -Correct
Answer ✔curtilage
what is not part of the element of an offense?
admission of guilt
forbidden conduct
required culpability
any required result -Correct Answer ✔admission of guilt
holding a person for a limited time who, as of yet is not answerable to a criminal offense
is -Correct Answer ✔temporary detention
an officer must have _ to believe the property is stolen to justify seizure of the property -
Correct Answer ✔reasonable ground (ccp 18.16 shoplifter clause)
a po may arrest without a warrant when a felony or breach of peace has been
committed in the presence of within view of _ and such person verbally orders the arrest
of the offender. -Correct Answer ✔magristrate
if a _ from another state comes into or passes through this state under an order
directing him to attend and testify in this or anther state he is not subject to arrest of the
service of civil or criminal process because of any act committed prior to his arrival in
this state under the order -Correct Answer ✔witness
_ exists when the facts and circumstances know to the officer would warrant a prudent
man believing that an offense has been committed -Correct Answer ✔probable cause
according to the ccp what is the actual forcible detention of a person and other coercive
measures to detain him within certain limits -Correct Answer ✔constructive custody
which us amendment is the primary focus of Miranda v Arizona? -Correct Answer ✔5th
amendment
a citizen may without a warrant arrest an offender when the offense is committed within
their view is a _ -Correct Answer ✔felony
which of the following occurring in the presence of an officer requires an arrest even
without a warrant?
intoxicate individual
threatening to commit an offense
person that the officer has pc to believe is violating a protective order
child violating city ordinance -Correct Answer ✔person violating a protective order
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TCOLE State Exam Review Questions
and Answers 2025
A person who in the course of committing theft, intentionally, knowingly or recklessly
causes bodily injury to another or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or
death has committed what offense? -Correct Answer ✔Robbery
A person knowingly causes serious bodily injury to another in the course of committing
theft. According to the penal code, what is the most serious offense committed? -
Correct Answer ✔Aggravated robbery
A person breaks into an attached garage breaks into a vehicle parked in the garage and
steals a 1500 dollar computer from the back seat. What is the most serious offense
committed? -Correct Answer ✔Burglary
A person commits the offense of theft if they_ appropriate property with intent to deprive
the owner of the property. -Correct Answer ✔unlawfully
A person removes a 450 dollar price tag from a retail item and replaces it with a 200
price tag. What offense has been committed? -Correct Answer ✔fraudulent destruction,
removal, or concealment of writing
The primary components of the american criminal justice system are_. -Correct Answer
✔police, courts, and corrections
_is law that defines the personal and property rights of individuals. -Correct Answer
✔civil law
according to the ccp which is not a magistrate?
Recorders of incorporate cities
justices of the peace
supreme court justices
district attorneys -Correct Answer ✔district attorneys
which of the following are not texas peace officers? -Correct Answer ✔ATF
According to the ccp the court of criminal appeals does not: -Correct Answer ✔review
decisions of civil cases
In order to prove a case of public intoxication a person must: -Correct Answer ✔appear
in a public place while intoxicated to a degree the person may endanger him/herself or
another
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a person is in the process of robbing a store when a customer enters and is shot and
killed by the person. what is the most serious offense committed? -Correct Answer
✔capital murder
a person abducts a child and demands a ransom for the child's release. the person gets
scared and releases the child unharmed. what is the most serious crime committed? -
Correct Answer ✔aggravated kidnapping
what offense is committed when a person threatens to harm another by an unlawful act
on account of their service as a witness or public servant? -Correct Answer
✔obstruction or retaliation
a person causes an explosion with the intent to destroy or damage and is reckless
about whether the explosion will endanger the life of some individual. The person has
committed_. -Correct Answer ✔arson
in the case of an exception to an offense the burden of proof lies with the _. -Correct
Answer ✔prosecuting attorney
a person acts _ with respect to the nature of their conduct when it is the conscious
objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result -Correct Answer
✔intentionally
a person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the offense is_
under duress
intentionally
recklessly
by his own conduct -Correct Answer ✔committed by his own conduct
what is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the actor was compelled by threat of
serious bodily injury to engage in the proscribed conduct? -Correct Answer ✔duress
a mistake of fact is _ -Correct Answer ✔a defense to prosecution
The poisonous tree doctrine was affirmed in -Correct Answer ✔wong sun v US
you can frisk if there is _ that the suspect may be in possession of a weapon -Correct
Answer ✔reasonable fear (terry v ohio)
when a search is conducted after a lawful arrest, within immediate control and
contemporaneous with the arrest, the search is justified under_ to lawful arrest -Correct
Answer ✔incidental
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what is generally considered to be that area of open space surrounding a dwelling,
which is so immediately adjacent to the dwelling that it is part of the house? -Correct
Answer ✔curtilage
what is not part of the element of an offense?
admission of guilt
forbidden conduct
required culpability
any required result -Correct Answer ✔admission of guilt
holding a person for a limited time who, as of yet is not answerable to a criminal offense
is -Correct Answer ✔temporary detention
an officer must have _ to believe the property is stolen to justify seizure of the property -
Correct Answer ✔reasonable ground (ccp 18.16 shoplifter clause)
a po may arrest without a warrant when a felony or breach of peace has been
committed in the presence of within view of _ and such person verbally orders the arrest
of the offender. -Correct Answer ✔magristrate
if a _ from another state comes into or passes through this state under an order
directing him to attend and testify in this or anther state he is not subject to arrest of the
service of civil or criminal process because of any act committed prior to his arrival in
this state under the order -Correct Answer ✔witness
_ exists when the facts and circumstances know to the officer would warrant a prudent
man believing that an offense has been committed -Correct Answer ✔probable cause
according to the ccp what is the actual forcible detention of a person and other coercive
measures to detain him within certain limits -Correct Answer ✔constructive custody
which us amendment is the primary focus of Miranda v Arizona? -Correct Answer ✔5th
amendment
a citizen may without a warrant arrest an offender when the offense is committed within
their view is a _ -Correct Answer ✔felony
which of the following occurring in the presence of an officer requires an arrest even
without a warrant?
intoxicate individual
threatening to commit an offense
person that the officer has pc to believe is violating a protective order
child violating city ordinance -Correct Answer ✔person violating a protective order
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