Sergeant Exam NFLST Questions and Answers Fully Solved
14th ammendment - Answers due process of law
Arrest - Answers intention, authority, custody
Arrest warrant - Answers 1. Name of the state
2. Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of that state)
3. Person who will be arrested
4. Offense Committed
5. Date, time, place of occurrence
6. Name of victim
7. Description of Offense
Mapp v. Ohio - Answers Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized
illegally cannot be used in court)
Search Warrant Exceptions - Answers Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle inventory, incident to arrest,
motor vehicle, plain view
Chimel v. California (1969) - Answers search is valid of a person and area under him immediate control
form which he could produce a weapon or destroy evidence
Carroll v. U.S. (1925) - Answers movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) - Answers can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe will find evidence of
the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
inductive reasoning - Answers factual and logical explanation of the crime
deductive reasoning - Answers hypothesis
neighborhood canvas - Answers helpful in about 20% of investigations
vehicle canvas - Answers get description, location, plate of vehicles in the area with description of
anything suspicious ie blood, bullet holes, possible evidence.
Primary v. secondary scenes - Answers primary is where first criminal act occurred, secondary scenes are
where all subsequent scenes occurred.
Evidence in "open view" - Answers processed before other items/bodies to make sure no undue damage
is done to families by media or common talk.
, 3 kinds of evidence - Answers Corpus delicti evidence - evidence that is needed to prove the commission
of the crime
Associative - connects the suspect to the scene or victim/ or connects the scene or victim to the suspect
Tracing - identification and location of the suspect such as a discarded ID at the scene.
Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an area after the boundary has been
determined - Answers Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone, Pie/wheel
Digital photography (far/medium/close) - Answers Orientation - far, Relationship - medium,
Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
Class characteristics - Answers not completely original, like the print of a Nike shoe
Individual characteristics - Answers fingerprints/footprints, etc.
Residue prints - Answers prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.
Impressions - Answers prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.
Plastic prints - Answers prints left in something "tacky" like silly putty, fatty foods, caulking
Patent/contaminated/visible - Answers fingers contaminated with an oily substance touch a clean
surface
Latent/invisible - Answers unseen or hidden prints that are developed to expose them
Forensic ondontology - Answers intersection of dentistry and criminal law, i.e. bite mark analysis and
identification.
Signature - Answers The striations on a bullet after passing through the bore of the barrel of a rifle or
pistol
Touch DNA - Answers small amounts of DNA evidence left from suspect skin shavings after touching
something.
Handwriting samples - Answers 15 to 20 samples should be collected from suspects
Objective of interrogation: (importance goes up as the difficulty goes up) - Answers Obtain valuable
facts, Eliminate the innocent, Identify the guilty, Obtain a confession
Proximity - Answers distance between you and subject during interview (optimal proximity 27 in. for
middle class white males)
14th ammendment - Answers due process of law
Arrest - Answers intention, authority, custody
Arrest warrant - Answers 1. Name of the state
2. Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of that state)
3. Person who will be arrested
4. Offense Committed
5. Date, time, place of occurrence
6. Name of victim
7. Description of Offense
Mapp v. Ohio - Answers Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized
illegally cannot be used in court)
Search Warrant Exceptions - Answers Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle inventory, incident to arrest,
motor vehicle, plain view
Chimel v. California (1969) - Answers search is valid of a person and area under him immediate control
form which he could produce a weapon or destroy evidence
Carroll v. U.S. (1925) - Answers movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) - Answers can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe will find evidence of
the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
inductive reasoning - Answers factual and logical explanation of the crime
deductive reasoning - Answers hypothesis
neighborhood canvas - Answers helpful in about 20% of investigations
vehicle canvas - Answers get description, location, plate of vehicles in the area with description of
anything suspicious ie blood, bullet holes, possible evidence.
Primary v. secondary scenes - Answers primary is where first criminal act occurred, secondary scenes are
where all subsequent scenes occurred.
Evidence in "open view" - Answers processed before other items/bodies to make sure no undue damage
is done to families by media or common talk.
, 3 kinds of evidence - Answers Corpus delicti evidence - evidence that is needed to prove the commission
of the crime
Associative - connects the suspect to the scene or victim/ or connects the scene or victim to the suspect
Tracing - identification and location of the suspect such as a discarded ID at the scene.
Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an area after the boundary has been
determined - Answers Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone, Pie/wheel
Digital photography (far/medium/close) - Answers Orientation - far, Relationship - medium,
Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
Class characteristics - Answers not completely original, like the print of a Nike shoe
Individual characteristics - Answers fingerprints/footprints, etc.
Residue prints - Answers prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.
Impressions - Answers prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.
Plastic prints - Answers prints left in something "tacky" like silly putty, fatty foods, caulking
Patent/contaminated/visible - Answers fingers contaminated with an oily substance touch a clean
surface
Latent/invisible - Answers unseen or hidden prints that are developed to expose them
Forensic ondontology - Answers intersection of dentistry and criminal law, i.e. bite mark analysis and
identification.
Signature - Answers The striations on a bullet after passing through the bore of the barrel of a rifle or
pistol
Touch DNA - Answers small amounts of DNA evidence left from suspect skin shavings after touching
something.
Handwriting samples - Answers 15 to 20 samples should be collected from suspects
Objective of interrogation: (importance goes up as the difficulty goes up) - Answers Obtain valuable
facts, Eliminate the innocent, Identify the guilty, Obtain a confession
Proximity - Answers distance between you and subject during interview (optimal proximity 27 in. for
middle class white males)
