TLETA PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔What does the grand jury do? - ✔✔enquers into law violations and determines
existence of PC
✔✔What are approved by grand jury? - ✔✔indictment (which is a true bill), capias
✔✔arraignment - ✔✔stage of the proceeding where defendant first appear in court to try
case (charges are read, plea is given, and bond is set)
✔✔trial - ✔✔plea bargaining and jury trial
✔✔Courts of appeals - ✔✔criminal court, court if criminal appeals, and state supreme
court.
✔✔sentencing of a felony - ✔✔1-5(A-E) A being the highest
✔✔sentencing of a misdemeanor - ✔✔1-3 (A-C) A being the highest
✔✔What is a class E felony consist of? - ✔✔1-6 years up to 3,000 dollar fine
✔✔What does a class D felony consist of? - ✔✔2-12 years up to 5,000 dollar fine
✔✔What does a class C felony consist of? - ✔✔3-15 years up to 10,000 dollar fine
✔✔What does a class B felony consist of?8-30 years up to 25,000 dollar fine. - ✔✔8-30
years up to 25,000 dollar fine.
✔✔what does a class A felony consist of? - ✔✔not less than 15 years no more than 60
years up to 50,000 dollar fine
✔✔What charge is the exception to felony? - ✔✔1st degree murder - death penalty
✔✔What does a class C misdemeanor consist of? - ✔✔up to 30 days or 50 dollar fine or
both
✔✔What does a class B misdemeanor consist of? - ✔✔up to 6 months or a fine up to
500 or both
✔✔What does a class A misdemeanor consist of? - ✔✔11/29 fine up to 2,500
✔✔what is the fifth amendment - ✔✔trial of crimes, double jeopardy, testify against
yourself
, ✔✔What is the 6th amendment - ✔✔civil rights for trials, speedy trial, public trial
✔✔What is the 8th amendment - ✔✔punishment
✔✔What is a lineup? - ✔✔live presentation of several different people by police to a
witness of crime so as to identify possible suspects
✔✔photographic ID - ✔✔the use of photo images to present suspects of a crime in
much the same manner as a lineup
✔✔what is a Showup - ✔✔live presentation, within a reasonable time after a crime, of a
single person by police to a witness so as to ID the suspect
✔✔What does the 4th amendment protect from? - ✔✔all government
✔✔what face of police work qre controlled by the 4th amendment? - ✔✔all searches
and seizures
✔✔What test does the court use to determine reasonableness under the 4th
amendment - ✔✔the objective reasonableness test
✔✔What are the tree legal police citizen encounters? - ✔✔consensual, arrest and
temporary detention
✔✔What happens if your search violates the 4th amendment? - ✔✔the exclusionary
rule, any evidence that is found as a result of illegal search will be inadmissible in court
and violation of civil rights acting under color of law
✔✔What are the levels of proof? - ✔✔mere suspicion, reasonable suspicion, probable
cause and proof beyond a reasonable doubt
✔✔What is mere suspicion? - ✔✔gut feeling
✔✔what is reasonable suspicion? - ✔✔suspicion based on specific fact and articubale
facts
✔✔What is probable cause? - ✔✔belief based on facts, reasonable person would come
to same conclusion, belief that a person probably committed or is probably committing a
crime, belief of crime is most likely explanation of the facts involved
✔✔What are exceptions to the rule of searching without a warrant? - ✔✔consent,
search incident arrest, frisk, exigent circumstances, Plainview, open fields, protective
sweep
2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔What does the grand jury do? - ✔✔enquers into law violations and determines
existence of PC
✔✔What are approved by grand jury? - ✔✔indictment (which is a true bill), capias
✔✔arraignment - ✔✔stage of the proceeding where defendant first appear in court to try
case (charges are read, plea is given, and bond is set)
✔✔trial - ✔✔plea bargaining and jury trial
✔✔Courts of appeals - ✔✔criminal court, court if criminal appeals, and state supreme
court.
✔✔sentencing of a felony - ✔✔1-5(A-E) A being the highest
✔✔sentencing of a misdemeanor - ✔✔1-3 (A-C) A being the highest
✔✔What is a class E felony consist of? - ✔✔1-6 years up to 3,000 dollar fine
✔✔What does a class D felony consist of? - ✔✔2-12 years up to 5,000 dollar fine
✔✔What does a class C felony consist of? - ✔✔3-15 years up to 10,000 dollar fine
✔✔What does a class B felony consist of?8-30 years up to 25,000 dollar fine. - ✔✔8-30
years up to 25,000 dollar fine.
✔✔what does a class A felony consist of? - ✔✔not less than 15 years no more than 60
years up to 50,000 dollar fine
✔✔What charge is the exception to felony? - ✔✔1st degree murder - death penalty
✔✔What does a class C misdemeanor consist of? - ✔✔up to 30 days or 50 dollar fine or
both
✔✔What does a class B misdemeanor consist of? - ✔✔up to 6 months or a fine up to
500 or both
✔✔What does a class A misdemeanor consist of? - ✔✔11/29 fine up to 2,500
✔✔what is the fifth amendment - ✔✔trial of crimes, double jeopardy, testify against
yourself
, ✔✔What is the 6th amendment - ✔✔civil rights for trials, speedy trial, public trial
✔✔What is the 8th amendment - ✔✔punishment
✔✔What is a lineup? - ✔✔live presentation of several different people by police to a
witness of crime so as to identify possible suspects
✔✔photographic ID - ✔✔the use of photo images to present suspects of a crime in
much the same manner as a lineup
✔✔what is a Showup - ✔✔live presentation, within a reasonable time after a crime, of a
single person by police to a witness so as to ID the suspect
✔✔What does the 4th amendment protect from? - ✔✔all government
✔✔what face of police work qre controlled by the 4th amendment? - ✔✔all searches
and seizures
✔✔What test does the court use to determine reasonableness under the 4th
amendment - ✔✔the objective reasonableness test
✔✔What are the tree legal police citizen encounters? - ✔✔consensual, arrest and
temporary detention
✔✔What happens if your search violates the 4th amendment? - ✔✔the exclusionary
rule, any evidence that is found as a result of illegal search will be inadmissible in court
and violation of civil rights acting under color of law
✔✔What are the levels of proof? - ✔✔mere suspicion, reasonable suspicion, probable
cause and proof beyond a reasonable doubt
✔✔What is mere suspicion? - ✔✔gut feeling
✔✔what is reasonable suspicion? - ✔✔suspicion based on specific fact and articubale
facts
✔✔What is probable cause? - ✔✔belief based on facts, reasonable person would come
to same conclusion, belief that a person probably committed or is probably committing a
crime, belief of crime is most likely explanation of the facts involved
✔✔What are exceptions to the rule of searching without a warrant? - ✔✔consent,
search incident arrest, frisk, exigent circumstances, Plainview, open fields, protective
sweep
