CITP Exam 4 | GRADED A+ | VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS |
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM REVIEW 2026
• refused entry -✓✓ANSWER: - silence
- sounds of flight
- destruction of evidence
- verbal refusal
- gunfire
• exigent circumstances to knock and announce -✓✓ANSWER: - danger to officers
or others
- destruction of evidence
- useless gesture
- hot pursuit
- ruses or decoys
(no knock warrants require same criteria as exigent circumstances)
• who has authority to issue federal search warrants? -✓✓ANSWER: magistrate
judges, district court judges, circuit court of appeals judges, supreme court justice,
state court judges (all must have jurisdiction)
• components of a search warrant -✓✓ANSWER: - must outline place to be
searched and persons/things to be seized (with particularity)
- nexus between evidence sought and location to be searched
,- can't be based on stale intel
• circumstances where a telephonic search warrant should be obtained -
✓✓ANSWER: - exigent circumstances make the standard process of obtaining a
warrant impractical
- cannot be issued by a state judge
- judge must have an "original" warrant
• Legal requirements for executing a search warrant -✓✓ANSWER: - requesting
officer must execute it
- should be executed in the day time (0600-2200), Typical 2 week time limit
- may handcuff if reasonable
- provide copy and inventory at the end
- frisks still require RS (if individual is listed on the warrant they are subject to
search)
- signed sw returned to issuing judge along w inventory
- includes all areas which could possibly conceal the objects in the sw
• Protective Sweep -✓✓ANSWER: - quick and limited search of premises incident
to arrest that includes places where a person could be hiding
automatic- with an arrest/search warrant, can search areas adjacent to arrest for
people
extended- reasonable officer would believe an area may harbor a dangerous
individual
, • when can evidence be seized under the plain view doctrine? -✓✓ANSWER: -
must be lawfully in position to observe the item
- incriminating nature of the item must be immediately apparent
- must have lawful right to access the object
• warrantless searches of motor vehicles -✓✓ANSWER: carroll doctrine- if LEO has
pc that vehicle located in public place contains evidence of a crime or contraband
requires- pc that evidence of a crime or contraband is in vehicle, and it is readily
mobile, can search areas where the object could be (locked or unlocked)
• Hot Pursuit -✓✓ANSWER: - pc to arrest
- serious crime
- immediate or continuous pursuit from a public place
- pc suspect is in residence
• sia -✓✓ANSWER: purpose- discover weapons, prevent destruction or
concealment of evidence, discover means of escape
requirements- must be substantially contemporaneous, can only search areas
accessible to the arrestee, includes containers (consider distance between
arrestee and area searched, handcuffs, number of officers)
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM REVIEW 2026
• refused entry -✓✓ANSWER: - silence
- sounds of flight
- destruction of evidence
- verbal refusal
- gunfire
• exigent circumstances to knock and announce -✓✓ANSWER: - danger to officers
or others
- destruction of evidence
- useless gesture
- hot pursuit
- ruses or decoys
(no knock warrants require same criteria as exigent circumstances)
• who has authority to issue federal search warrants? -✓✓ANSWER: magistrate
judges, district court judges, circuit court of appeals judges, supreme court justice,
state court judges (all must have jurisdiction)
• components of a search warrant -✓✓ANSWER: - must outline place to be
searched and persons/things to be seized (with particularity)
- nexus between evidence sought and location to be searched
,- can't be based on stale intel
• circumstances where a telephonic search warrant should be obtained -
✓✓ANSWER: - exigent circumstances make the standard process of obtaining a
warrant impractical
- cannot be issued by a state judge
- judge must have an "original" warrant
• Legal requirements for executing a search warrant -✓✓ANSWER: - requesting
officer must execute it
- should be executed in the day time (0600-2200), Typical 2 week time limit
- may handcuff if reasonable
- provide copy and inventory at the end
- frisks still require RS (if individual is listed on the warrant they are subject to
search)
- signed sw returned to issuing judge along w inventory
- includes all areas which could possibly conceal the objects in the sw
• Protective Sweep -✓✓ANSWER: - quick and limited search of premises incident
to arrest that includes places where a person could be hiding
automatic- with an arrest/search warrant, can search areas adjacent to arrest for
people
extended- reasonable officer would believe an area may harbor a dangerous
individual
, • when can evidence be seized under the plain view doctrine? -✓✓ANSWER: -
must be lawfully in position to observe the item
- incriminating nature of the item must be immediately apparent
- must have lawful right to access the object
• warrantless searches of motor vehicles -✓✓ANSWER: carroll doctrine- if LEO has
pc that vehicle located in public place contains evidence of a crime or contraband
requires- pc that evidence of a crime or contraband is in vehicle, and it is readily
mobile, can search areas where the object could be (locked or unlocked)
• Hot Pursuit -✓✓ANSWER: - pc to arrest
- serious crime
- immediate or continuous pursuit from a public place
- pc suspect is in residence
• sia -✓✓ANSWER: purpose- discover weapons, prevent destruction or
concealment of evidence, discover means of escape
requirements- must be substantially contemporaneous, can only search areas
accessible to the arrestee, includes containers (consider distance between
arrestee and area searched, handcuffs, number of officers)
