RBC 3 LD EXAMPLES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
3:30am and your patrolling a parking lot with a jewelry store. You notice a HMA with a hoodie looking
inside the window of the jewelry store. You approach him.
Consensual or detention? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Censensual Encounter
An area or object means having enough facts or
information to provide a fair probability, or a substantial chance, that the item
sought is located in the place to be searched.
What type of search is this?
1. Probable cause search
2. Seizure search
3. Reasonable suspicion search
3. Warrantless search - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Probable Cause Search
A family arrived at a campground in their motor home. The
property manager offered the lot for free if the family
would agree to pay for the utilities. The father agreed, even
though he knew they would not have enough money to do
so. After five weeks, the family drove off late one night
without telling the manager and not paying the $360 bill.
What crime did The father commit? And PC - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅PC 537 Defraud an Innkeeper
A woman knew that her boss owned several expensive
coins and kept them at his home. While he was away on
business, she decided to go to his apartment to steal his
coin collection. She entered the apartment with the key he
,kept in his desk at the office. She went to the drawer where
the coins were stored; however, they weren't there.
She quickly left the apartment. She committed what crime? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Burglary
Officers with a warrant set off firecrackers to simulate
gunfire, then asked the occupants inside the fortress-like
house to come outside to check their vehicles for damage.
Once the barricades to the home were down, the officers
announced their identity and authority to conduct a search.
This is called a what type of entry?
Legal Entry
Search Entry
Consent Entry
Ruse Entry
Warrantless entry - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ruse Entry
During a search authorized by a search warrant, officers are limited by the information specified in the
search warrant.
This is known what type of search?
Scope of the search
Warrantless search
Indoor search
Execution search - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Scope of the search
, Two officers conducting a valid, warrantless administrative inspection of an automobile repair shop
came across evidence of drugs in plain view and through plain smell. Do the officers have legal authority
to seize the evidence? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes because they were conducting other legal business
in that location
In deciding whether a warrantless search or seizure was legal, courts will always consider
___________________. However, peace officers must always have specific facts to demonstrate the
search or seizure fell within one of the exceptions to the warrant requirement.
All the facts
Totality of the circumstances
Reasonable suspicion
Probable cause - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Totality of the circumstances
An officer was in a hotel room questioning a female companion of a man who had been arrested for
armed robbery earlier that day. In the course of the questioning, the woman grabbed her make-up bag
from a nearby dresser. Because it was reasonable to suspect that the woman might be reaching for a
weapon, the officer seized the bag. When the officer realized the bag was heavy and large enough to
potentially contain a weapon, he opened the bag to
search it.
Is the officer able to search the bag even though he did not see an imprint of a weapon in a pat
down/frisk search? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes
While on routine patrol one morning, two officers spotted a young man
looking into parked cars in an alley where there had been earlier complaints of vehicle tampering. As the
officers drove by slowly, the man tried to hide behind a dumpster. When the officers approached him,
the man became nervous, boisterous, and antagonistic. Can the officers conduct lawfully frisk/pat
search him for weapons or potential weapons? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes
A man picked up his girlfriend in a car he had stolen. He
bragged to her how easy it was to steal the car. They took
3:30am and your patrolling a parking lot with a jewelry store. You notice a HMA with a hoodie looking
inside the window of the jewelry store. You approach him.
Consensual or detention? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Censensual Encounter
An area or object means having enough facts or
information to provide a fair probability, or a substantial chance, that the item
sought is located in the place to be searched.
What type of search is this?
1. Probable cause search
2. Seizure search
3. Reasonable suspicion search
3. Warrantless search - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Probable Cause Search
A family arrived at a campground in their motor home. The
property manager offered the lot for free if the family
would agree to pay for the utilities. The father agreed, even
though he knew they would not have enough money to do
so. After five weeks, the family drove off late one night
without telling the manager and not paying the $360 bill.
What crime did The father commit? And PC - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅PC 537 Defraud an Innkeeper
A woman knew that her boss owned several expensive
coins and kept them at his home. While he was away on
business, she decided to go to his apartment to steal his
coin collection. She entered the apartment with the key he
,kept in his desk at the office. She went to the drawer where
the coins were stored; however, they weren't there.
She quickly left the apartment. She committed what crime? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Burglary
Officers with a warrant set off firecrackers to simulate
gunfire, then asked the occupants inside the fortress-like
house to come outside to check their vehicles for damage.
Once the barricades to the home were down, the officers
announced their identity and authority to conduct a search.
This is called a what type of entry?
Legal Entry
Search Entry
Consent Entry
Ruse Entry
Warrantless entry - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ruse Entry
During a search authorized by a search warrant, officers are limited by the information specified in the
search warrant.
This is known what type of search?
Scope of the search
Warrantless search
Indoor search
Execution search - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Scope of the search
, Two officers conducting a valid, warrantless administrative inspection of an automobile repair shop
came across evidence of drugs in plain view and through plain smell. Do the officers have legal authority
to seize the evidence? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes because they were conducting other legal business
in that location
In deciding whether a warrantless search or seizure was legal, courts will always consider
___________________. However, peace officers must always have specific facts to demonstrate the
search or seizure fell within one of the exceptions to the warrant requirement.
All the facts
Totality of the circumstances
Reasonable suspicion
Probable cause - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Totality of the circumstances
An officer was in a hotel room questioning a female companion of a man who had been arrested for
armed robbery earlier that day. In the course of the questioning, the woman grabbed her make-up bag
from a nearby dresser. Because it was reasonable to suspect that the woman might be reaching for a
weapon, the officer seized the bag. When the officer realized the bag was heavy and large enough to
potentially contain a weapon, he opened the bag to
search it.
Is the officer able to search the bag even though he did not see an imprint of a weapon in a pat
down/frisk search? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes
While on routine patrol one morning, two officers spotted a young man
looking into parked cars in an alley where there had been earlier complaints of vehicle tampering. As the
officers drove by slowly, the man tried to hide behind a dumpster. When the officers approached him,
the man became nervous, boisterous, and antagonistic. Can the officers conduct lawfully frisk/pat
search him for weapons or potential weapons? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Yes
A man picked up his girlfriend in a car he had stolen. He
bragged to her how easy it was to steal the car. They took
