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NILEA CRIMINAL LAW EXAM WITH CORRECT
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED
ANSWERS LATEST 2025 ALREADY GRADED A+
Federal civil rights act - (answers)-Allow the police to be criminally, prosecuted, or
can be sued civilly when they act in a way that violates peoples constitutional
rights or act unlawfully.
-Examples, police officers acting reckless or callous way, or with evil or ill intent if
they violate someone's constitutional rights.
Is a valid arrest warrant, sufficient authority to enter the home of a third-party to
search for the person named in the arrest warrant when you do not have consent
and you do not have exigent circumstances, even though there is reasonable
belief that the wanted person is there? - (answers)NO; the fourth amendment has
drawn affirm line at the entrance to a residence. Without exigent, circumstances,
or consent of the threshold may not reasonably be crossed without a warrant.
-remember: to arrest the subject of a warrant in the residence of a third person, a
search warrant, in addition to the arrest warrant, should be obtained in order to
protect the rights of the third person, unless consent is obtained, or exigent
circumstances, such as fresh pursuit exits.
without a search warrant: evidence found in the third person's home during the
arrest, may not be admissible in a prosecution against the person.
Understanding when an officer can use deadly force: - (answers)Tennessee v.
Garner; unless exigent circumstances apply, only reasonable force is necessary to
seize a fleeing misdemeanor.
officers can only resort to deadly force if there is probable cause that the suspect
has committed a felony and is a threat to the safety to the officer or to the public.
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A fourth amendment seizure occurs when a person fleeing the police is in fact,
stopped by the very means set in motion or put in place by the police to
accomplish the stop: Whether it is a bullet, a roadblock, or some other means.
Lawful arrest and searching incident to arrest when someone is in their home. -
(answers)The scope of a search made incidental to a lawful arrest, includes the
person of the arrestee, and the area into which he could reach to obtain a
weapon or to destroy evidence.
Immediate area, wingspan, bubble theory
understanding definition, different terms, and the standard to what probable
cause is: - (answers)The standard for an arrest is probable cause, defined in terms
of facts and circumstances "sufficient to warrant a prudent man, in believing that
the defendant had committed or was committing an offense."
reasonable, prudent, totality of the circumstances.
When we have probable cause we need what first before an arrest? -
(answers)The courts will consider if the arrest was logical and believable, and they
will look at the time frozen concept to determine if probable cause was obtained
before the arrest.
What amendment does probable cause apply to? - (answers)Probable cause
applies to the fourth amendment. "search and seizure"
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Applying for warrants: - (answers)Only a neutral and detached judicial officer
(judge/magistrate) may issue a warrant.
What is the minimum amount of proof necessary that is required to make an
arrest or to get a valid warrant? - (answers)Probable Cause
Understanding Miranda and different scenarios: - (answers)Miranda only applies
when there is CUSTODY and INTERROGATION.
Does Miranda apply to non-custodial circumstances? - (answers)NO
Difference between admissible and inadmissible - (answers)Think of admissible as
admitted; the evidence was admitted or accepted
Think of inadmissible, or not admissible as not admitted; the evidence was not
admitted or not accepted
If two people are detained/arrested, and they are interrogated, or questioned
lawfully: - (answers)Understand that if defendant A decides not to talk, but
defendant B is voluntarily providing statements. All of that is admissible, even if it
is incriminating to defendant A.
Using information from an unnamed, confidential informant, to obtain search
warrant: - (answers)When an affidavit for a search warrant contains information
from a known, but unnamed, reliable, informant, and when the information is
essential to the finding of probable cause, they must appear in the affidavit: A)
NILEA CRIMINAL LAW EXAM WITH CORRECT
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED
ANSWERS LATEST 2025 ALREADY GRADED A+
Federal civil rights act - (answers)-Allow the police to be criminally, prosecuted, or
can be sued civilly when they act in a way that violates peoples constitutional
rights or act unlawfully.
-Examples, police officers acting reckless or callous way, or with evil or ill intent if
they violate someone's constitutional rights.
Is a valid arrest warrant, sufficient authority to enter the home of a third-party to
search for the person named in the arrest warrant when you do not have consent
and you do not have exigent circumstances, even though there is reasonable
belief that the wanted person is there? - (answers)NO; the fourth amendment has
drawn affirm line at the entrance to a residence. Without exigent, circumstances,
or consent of the threshold may not reasonably be crossed without a warrant.
-remember: to arrest the subject of a warrant in the residence of a third person, a
search warrant, in addition to the arrest warrant, should be obtained in order to
protect the rights of the third person, unless consent is obtained, or exigent
circumstances, such as fresh pursuit exits.
without a search warrant: evidence found in the third person's home during the
arrest, may not be admissible in a prosecution against the person.
Understanding when an officer can use deadly force: - (answers)Tennessee v.
Garner; unless exigent circumstances apply, only reasonable force is necessary to
seize a fleeing misdemeanor.
officers can only resort to deadly force if there is probable cause that the suspect
has committed a felony and is a threat to the safety to the officer or to the public.
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A fourth amendment seizure occurs when a person fleeing the police is in fact,
stopped by the very means set in motion or put in place by the police to
accomplish the stop: Whether it is a bullet, a roadblock, or some other means.
Lawful arrest and searching incident to arrest when someone is in their home. -
(answers)The scope of a search made incidental to a lawful arrest, includes the
person of the arrestee, and the area into which he could reach to obtain a
weapon or to destroy evidence.
Immediate area, wingspan, bubble theory
understanding definition, different terms, and the standard to what probable
cause is: - (answers)The standard for an arrest is probable cause, defined in terms
of facts and circumstances "sufficient to warrant a prudent man, in believing that
the defendant had committed or was committing an offense."
reasonable, prudent, totality of the circumstances.
When we have probable cause we need what first before an arrest? -
(answers)The courts will consider if the arrest was logical and believable, and they
will look at the time frozen concept to determine if probable cause was obtained
before the arrest.
What amendment does probable cause apply to? - (answers)Probable cause
applies to the fourth amendment. "search and seizure"
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Applying for warrants: - (answers)Only a neutral and detached judicial officer
(judge/magistrate) may issue a warrant.
What is the minimum amount of proof necessary that is required to make an
arrest or to get a valid warrant? - (answers)Probable Cause
Understanding Miranda and different scenarios: - (answers)Miranda only applies
when there is CUSTODY and INTERROGATION.
Does Miranda apply to non-custodial circumstances? - (answers)NO
Difference between admissible and inadmissible - (answers)Think of admissible as
admitted; the evidence was admitted or accepted
Think of inadmissible, or not admissible as not admitted; the evidence was not
admitted or not accepted
If two people are detained/arrested, and they are interrogated, or questioned
lawfully: - (answers)Understand that if defendant A decides not to talk, but
defendant B is voluntarily providing statements. All of that is admissible, even if it
is incriminating to defendant A.
Using information from an unnamed, confidential informant, to obtain search
warrant: - (answers)When an affidavit for a search warrant contains information
from a known, but unnamed, reliable, informant, and when the information is
essential to the finding of probable cause, they must appear in the affidavit: A)
