CITP exam 2 questions and answers with solutions 2025

FRE - ANSWER Federal Rules of Evidence Forms of Evidence - ANSWER 1. Testimonial 2.Real 3.Demonstrative Voir Dire - ANSWER Jury Selection Stages of a criminal trial - ANSWER 1. Pre-trial suppression hearings 2. Voir Dire 3. Opening statements from counsel 4. The Case-in-Chief 5. The defense case 6. The rebuttal case 7. Closing arguements 8. the charge to the jury 9. sentencing 10. Post-Trial proceedings what must evidence be in order to be admissable? - ANSWER Relevant Direct evidence - ANSWER proves a fact directly and without the need to draw an inference or a conclusion about what the evidence implies or suggests may also be true or false. Circumstantial evidence - ANSWER tends to prove a fact indirectly through an inference, deduction, or a conclusion. how do you attack the credibility of a witness? - ANSWER Impeachment Factors that affect a witness credibility - ANSWER Bias, motive to fabricate testimony, inability to observe or accurately remember, contradiction, prior inconsistent statements, specific instances of conduct that indicate a witness is untruthful, prior convictions to show untruthfulness Laying a foundation for evidence - ANSWER A proper foundation consists of evidence usually in the form of testimony, that the item is what the party offering it claims it to be Can witnesses testify from their reports or notes - ANSWER No, except for some expert witnesses and in a few other limited circumstances. Memory can be "refreshed" if a witness forgets a fact while testifying. How many drug schedules are there? - ANSWER 5 21 USC 844 - ANSWER it is unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to possess a controlled substance. 21 USC 841 - ANSWER knowingly or intentionally manufacture, distribute or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance. what is entrapment? - ANSWER the act of government officers or their agents inducing a person to commit a crime not contemplated by that person, for the purpose of prosecuting that individual. If predisposition is established, there is no entrapment.