TXDPS CID QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS.
No, consensual encounter - ✔✔If officer knocks on the window of a legally parked car and asks if
the occupant can answer a couple questions, would that be considered detention?
Yes - ✔✔Officer orders the occupant of a parked car to exit. The car is parked legally in a public place
and no probable cause exists. Is this considered detention?
Yes - ✔✔Officer shines light into a parked car at night and clearly observes marijuana. The car
is parked in a public place. Can the officer seize the marijuana under the plain view doctrine?
It can be seized but not used in trial - ✔✔Officer intrudes onto suspect's private property without
a warrant and finds incriminating evidence. Can the officer seize the property and use it as evidence
on trial?
Yes - ✔✔You formally arrest suspect, bring suspect to your police interview room, and then
Mirandize the suspect. The suspect waives his rights. During the interview the suspect's sister calls and
tells you that she hired a lawyer to represent the suspect. This lawyer even calls you and advises to not
speak to his client. You hang up the phone and interview the suspect anyways. Suspect makes
incriminating statements. Are the statements admissible?
True. But it kind of depends on distance. Up to 12' steel measuring tape is better, longer distances could
present an invalid argument. Distance was not indicated by the question. - ✔✔Metal/steel measuring
tape is preferred by crime scene investigators over cloth due to being stretch resistant?
Yes - ✔✔Pictures of evidence helps to support the understanding of evidence to a jury?
Yes. The driver voluntarily opened the trunk. - ✔✔Trooper stops car for defective tail light.
Trooper advises he will release with a warning if the driver rectifies the problem. Driver opens the
trunk to
, retrieve a bulb. As the trunk opens the Trooper observes marijuana in plain view in the trunk. Is the
evidence admissible and can it be seized?
Yes - ✔✔Child Protective Services, probation, correctional officers are all considered officers
under Federal rule?
NO due to the wording of the question, but I'm only 94% sure on this one. The question may have
been presented differently. Administrative warrants can only be issued to the following: Fire Marshal,
Health officer, or Code enforcement officer. Therefore, if the question is meaning "Officer" as the
same as these 3 titles, then it's a Yes. Just pay attention to the wording. A Fire Marshal would be
considered a "peace officer" anyways. - ✔✔Can peace officers execute administrative searches of
homes and buildings?
Exculpatory evidence - ✔✔What kind of evidence is favorable to the defendant in a criminal trial?
Yes. Due process requires disclosure - ✔✔Is the prosecutor required to disclose exculpatory
evidence.
Protective sweep - ✔✔Clearing an area (such as a building) for other persons/danger. It is limited
to the area a person could be hiding upon executing a search of a building.
Search incident to arrest - ✔✔the area within the immediate reach of the suspect, to
include enclosed objects.
Shall be, approved duty ammunition - ✔✔All rifles, shotguns, and handguns, whether DPS
issued, carried in lieu of, or in addition to, _______ sighted in with the _______ to be carried.
False, minor repairs can be done by armorers - ✔✔All Department issued firearm repairs
and adjustments must be repaired by the DPS Firearms Training Unit.
Not for state charges but can be for federal charges - ✔✔A private citizen is trespassing and stumbles
across marijuana growing on private property. Can the evidence be used in trial?
CORRECT ANSWERS.
No, consensual encounter - ✔✔If officer knocks on the window of a legally parked car and asks if
the occupant can answer a couple questions, would that be considered detention?
Yes - ✔✔Officer orders the occupant of a parked car to exit. The car is parked legally in a public place
and no probable cause exists. Is this considered detention?
Yes - ✔✔Officer shines light into a parked car at night and clearly observes marijuana. The car
is parked in a public place. Can the officer seize the marijuana under the plain view doctrine?
It can be seized but not used in trial - ✔✔Officer intrudes onto suspect's private property without
a warrant and finds incriminating evidence. Can the officer seize the property and use it as evidence
on trial?
Yes - ✔✔You formally arrest suspect, bring suspect to your police interview room, and then
Mirandize the suspect. The suspect waives his rights. During the interview the suspect's sister calls and
tells you that she hired a lawyer to represent the suspect. This lawyer even calls you and advises to not
speak to his client. You hang up the phone and interview the suspect anyways. Suspect makes
incriminating statements. Are the statements admissible?
True. But it kind of depends on distance. Up to 12' steel measuring tape is better, longer distances could
present an invalid argument. Distance was not indicated by the question. - ✔✔Metal/steel measuring
tape is preferred by crime scene investigators over cloth due to being stretch resistant?
Yes - ✔✔Pictures of evidence helps to support the understanding of evidence to a jury?
Yes. The driver voluntarily opened the trunk. - ✔✔Trooper stops car for defective tail light.
Trooper advises he will release with a warning if the driver rectifies the problem. Driver opens the
trunk to
, retrieve a bulb. As the trunk opens the Trooper observes marijuana in plain view in the trunk. Is the
evidence admissible and can it be seized?
Yes - ✔✔Child Protective Services, probation, correctional officers are all considered officers
under Federal rule?
NO due to the wording of the question, but I'm only 94% sure on this one. The question may have
been presented differently. Administrative warrants can only be issued to the following: Fire Marshal,
Health officer, or Code enforcement officer. Therefore, if the question is meaning "Officer" as the
same as these 3 titles, then it's a Yes. Just pay attention to the wording. A Fire Marshal would be
considered a "peace officer" anyways. - ✔✔Can peace officers execute administrative searches of
homes and buildings?
Exculpatory evidence - ✔✔What kind of evidence is favorable to the defendant in a criminal trial?
Yes. Due process requires disclosure - ✔✔Is the prosecutor required to disclose exculpatory
evidence.
Protective sweep - ✔✔Clearing an area (such as a building) for other persons/danger. It is limited
to the area a person could be hiding upon executing a search of a building.
Search incident to arrest - ✔✔the area within the immediate reach of the suspect, to
include enclosed objects.
Shall be, approved duty ammunition - ✔✔All rifles, shotguns, and handguns, whether DPS
issued, carried in lieu of, or in addition to, _______ sighted in with the _______ to be carried.
False, minor repairs can be done by armorers - ✔✔All Department issued firearm repairs
and adjustments must be repaired by the DPS Firearms Training Unit.
Not for state charges but can be for federal charges - ✔✔A private citizen is trespassing and stumbles
across marijuana growing on private property. Can the evidence be used in trial?
