NC BLET Fingerprinting and Photographing Arrestees questions & answers graded A+

NC BLET Fingerprinting and Photographing ArresteesG.S. 15A-501 and G.S 15A-502 - correct answers When an Officer arrests an adult, the Officer obtains photographs and fingerprints pursuant to A person charged with the commission of a felony or a misdemeanor may be photographed and his/her fingerprints may be taken for law enforcement records only when he has been: - correct answers (a) Arrested or committed to a detention facility or (b) Committed to imprisonment upon conviction of a crime or (c) Convicted of a felony. (d) If a person cannot be identified by a valid form of identification, any person arrested for impaired driving or driving while license revoked based on an impaired driving revocation shall be fingerprinted and photographed. (e) A person cited for a motor vehicle moving violation may be photographed if unable to produce a valid drivers license and about whose true identity the officer has suspicion. such a photograph must only be from the waist up and must be destroyed upon final dispostion G.S 15A-502 - correct answers This section does not authorize the taking of photographs or fingerprints when the offense is charged is a Class 2 or 3 misdemeanor under Chapter 20 of the General Statues, "Motor Vehicles." Disposition - correct answers any action which results in termination or indeterminate suspension of the prosecution of a criminal charge. G.S 15A-1382 Reports of disposition: fingerprints - correct answers (1) When the defendant is fingerprinted pursuant to G.S. 15A-502 and prior to the disposition of the case, a report of the disposition of the charges shall be made to the State Bureau of Investigation on a form supplied by the State Bureau of Investigation within 60 days following disposition (2) When a defendant is found guilty of any felony, regardless of the class of felony, a report of the disposition of the charges shall be made to the State Bureau of Investigations G.S. 7B-2200 - correct answers Transfer of jurisdiction of juvenile to superior court. A district court after notice, hearing and a finding of probale cause may transfer jurisdiction over a juvenile to superior court if the juvenile was 13 years of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the alleged felony constitutes a Class A felony and the district court finds probable cause, the court shall transfer the case to the superior court for trial as in the case of adults. G.S. 7B-2201 - correct answers Fingerprinting juvenile transferred to superior court. When jurisdiction over a juvenile is transferred to the superior court, the juvenile shall be fingerprinted and his/her fingerprints shall be sen to the State Bureau of Investigation. G.S. 7B-2102 - correct answers A law enforcement officer or agency must fingerprint and photograph a juvenile when: (a) The law enforcement officer has prepared a complaint for filing as a petition and (b) The complaint charges one of more nondivertible offenses as set forth in G.S. 7B-1701 and (c) The juvenile was at least ten years old at the time the offense was committed and (d) The juvenile is in the phsical custody of law enforcement or the Department of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention. This statue gives the right to take the fingerprints If law enforcement cannot or does not take fingerprints or photographs of a juvenile under the above section or the prints have been destroyed, the officer must fingerprint and photograph a juvenile: - correct answers (a) Who has been adjudicated delinquent and (b) Who is 10 years old or older at the time of the commission of the offense and (c) The juvenile has been adjudicated delinquent for conduct which would be a felony if committed by an adult. Other than this electronic file, fingerprints and photographs must be maintained separately from any juvenile record. They are not public records and must be withheld from inspection and are not to be