TLETA ACTUAL EXAM SOLVED QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● 3 Categories of People
Answer: 1) Vacationers (Mercenaries)- What do i get out of this?
2) Adventures (Missionaries)
3) Prisoners
●● What does Modern day policing come from?
Answer: English Common Law
●● What is the Court Structure?
Answer: Supreme Court, Court of criminal appeals, appeals court,
Circuit court or Criminal court, municipal and general sessions
●● What is the Legal Hierarchy?
Answer: Federal Laws, State laws, Local laws
●● What are the steps to State court?
Answer: Arrest, general sessions, grand jury, trial, appeal
●● 3 Checks of Probable cause/Arrest
,Answer: Initial appearance/preliminary hearing, general sessions, grand
jury
●● Levels of Proof
Answer: Mere suspicion, reasonable suspicion, P/C, beyond a reasonable
doubt
●● What is a magistrate?
Answer: An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a
person charged with a public offense
●● Who are considered magistrates?
Answer: Judicial commissioners, judges of circuit & Criminal courts,
Supreme Court, general sessions judges, city judges or juvenile judges
●● What is a mittimus?
Answer: Order in writing committing a person to jail
●● What does Examination required before commitment mean?
Answer: No one person can be committed to prison on any criminal
matter without first being examined by a magistrate
●● Affidavit
, Answer: Written statement signed and sworn to before an official (after
arrest)
●● Warrant
Answer: Written order commanding that a person be arrested, must be
signed by magistrate (before arrest)
●● 8th Amendment
Answer: No cruel or unusual punishment. All prisoners shall be bailable
by sufficient sureties except for capital offenses
●● Who endorses bail amount?
Answer: Magistrate
●● How many people are on a grand jury?
Answer: 13 people. 12 jurors, 1 foreperson appointed by judge
●● Who discharges bail
Answer: Sheriff
●● preliminary hearing
Answer: Not a constitutional right; is a probable cause screening
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● 3 Categories of People
Answer: 1) Vacationers (Mercenaries)- What do i get out of this?
2) Adventures (Missionaries)
3) Prisoners
●● What does Modern day policing come from?
Answer: English Common Law
●● What is the Court Structure?
Answer: Supreme Court, Court of criminal appeals, appeals court,
Circuit court or Criminal court, municipal and general sessions
●● What is the Legal Hierarchy?
Answer: Federal Laws, State laws, Local laws
●● What are the steps to State court?
Answer: Arrest, general sessions, grand jury, trial, appeal
●● 3 Checks of Probable cause/Arrest
,Answer: Initial appearance/preliminary hearing, general sessions, grand
jury
●● Levels of Proof
Answer: Mere suspicion, reasonable suspicion, P/C, beyond a reasonable
doubt
●● What is a magistrate?
Answer: An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a
person charged with a public offense
●● Who are considered magistrates?
Answer: Judicial commissioners, judges of circuit & Criminal courts,
Supreme Court, general sessions judges, city judges or juvenile judges
●● What is a mittimus?
Answer: Order in writing committing a person to jail
●● What does Examination required before commitment mean?
Answer: No one person can be committed to prison on any criminal
matter without first being examined by a magistrate
●● Affidavit
, Answer: Written statement signed and sworn to before an official (after
arrest)
●● Warrant
Answer: Written order commanding that a person be arrested, must be
signed by magistrate (before arrest)
●● 8th Amendment
Answer: No cruel or unusual punishment. All prisoners shall be bailable
by sufficient sureties except for capital offenses
●● Who endorses bail amount?
Answer: Magistrate
●● How many people are on a grand jury?
Answer: 13 people. 12 jurors, 1 foreperson appointed by judge
●● Who discharges bail
Answer: Sheriff
●● preliminary hearing
Answer: Not a constitutional right; is a probable cause screening
