RBC 3 - LD Examples Questions and
Answers Verified
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
Answers Verified
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
