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CID study guide Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: When should Miranda rights be read? ANS 🗹🗹: During a Custodial Interview.
Q: What is the due course of law? ANS 🗹🗹: That no citizen shall be deprived of life,
liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by
the due course of the law of the land. (CCP 1.04)
Q: Only after an idictment of a _______ _______ can a person be tried for a felony. ANS 🗹🗹:
Grand Jury
Q: All prisoners shall be bailable unless for ______ ______ when the proof is evident. ANS
🗹🗹: Capital Offenses
Q: A search warrant must have probable cause supported by what? ANS 🗹🗹: Oath or
affirmation
Q: ____________________ shall never be suspended. ANS 🗹🗹: Writ of Habeas Corpus
Q: Habeas Corpus - Latin meaning? ANS 🗹🗹: You have the body
Q: No person for the same offense shall be tried _______ for the same offense of a court of
competent Jurisdiction. ANS 🗹🗹: Twice
Q: If a defendant has been acquitted upon trial in a court having no jurisdiction of the
offense, he may be prosecuted again in a court having jurisdiction. This is known as
what? ANS 🗹🗹: Acquittal a bar
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Q: A person may waive his/her right to a trial by jury for any offense except a _________.
ANS 🗹🗹: Capital felony case
Q: This waiver must be made by the defendant in person and in writing in front of the
_______ and the _______. ANS 🗹🗹: Judge and State Attorney
Q: The ONLY exception to defendants not waiving their right to a jury, involve the
_______, they may not waive their right to a jury trial. ANS 🗹🗹: Death Penalty
Q: Defendants may waive their right to be accused by indictment, except in _______. ANS
🗹🗹: Capital Felonies
Q: ________ do not exempt a person from being required to deliver accurate testimony
before the court. ANS 🗹🗹: Religious Beliefs
Q: Senatore and Representatives shall, except in cases of ________, felony, breach of the
peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the legislature. ANS 🗹🗹: Treason
Q: Senators and Representatives are allowed 1 day for every ______ miles in going to and
returning from legislature. ANS 🗹🗹: 20
Q: The proceedings and trials in all courts SHALL be _______. ANS 🗹🗹: Public
Q: Identify all magistrates in the state of Texas. ANS 🗹🗹: Supreme Court, Court of
Criminal Appeals, Court of Appeals, District Courts and certain judges from county, and
includes Justice of the Peace, Mayers, Recorders, Municipal judges of incorporated cities
or towns.
Q: When a magistrate sits for the purpose of inquiring into a criminal accusation against
any person, this is called a _______. ANS 🗹🗹: Examining Court
Q: Special Investigators are not _______, but have the rights of arrest, search and seizure
in felony cases in Texas. ANS 🗹🗹: Peace officers
CID study guide Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: When should Miranda rights be read? ANS 🗹🗹: During a Custodial Interview.
Q: What is the due course of law? ANS 🗹🗹: That no citizen shall be deprived of life,
liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by
the due course of the law of the land. (CCP 1.04)
Q: Only after an idictment of a _______ _______ can a person be tried for a felony. ANS 🗹🗹:
Grand Jury
Q: All prisoners shall be bailable unless for ______ ______ when the proof is evident. ANS
🗹🗹: Capital Offenses
Q: A search warrant must have probable cause supported by what? ANS 🗹🗹: Oath or
affirmation
Q: ____________________ shall never be suspended. ANS 🗹🗹: Writ of Habeas Corpus
Q: Habeas Corpus - Latin meaning? ANS 🗹🗹: You have the body
Q: No person for the same offense shall be tried _______ for the same offense of a court of
competent Jurisdiction. ANS 🗹🗹: Twice
Q: If a defendant has been acquitted upon trial in a court having no jurisdiction of the
offense, he may be prosecuted again in a court having jurisdiction. This is known as
what? ANS 🗹🗹: Acquittal a bar
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Q: A person may waive his/her right to a trial by jury for any offense except a _________.
ANS 🗹🗹: Capital felony case
Q: This waiver must be made by the defendant in person and in writing in front of the
_______ and the _______. ANS 🗹🗹: Judge and State Attorney
Q: The ONLY exception to defendants not waiving their right to a jury, involve the
_______, they may not waive their right to a jury trial. ANS 🗹🗹: Death Penalty
Q: Defendants may waive their right to be accused by indictment, except in _______. ANS
🗹🗹: Capital Felonies
Q: ________ do not exempt a person from being required to deliver accurate testimony
before the court. ANS 🗹🗹: Religious Beliefs
Q: Senatore and Representatives shall, except in cases of ________, felony, breach of the
peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the legislature. ANS 🗹🗹: Treason
Q: Senators and Representatives are allowed 1 day for every ______ miles in going to and
returning from legislature. ANS 🗹🗹: 20
Q: The proceedings and trials in all courts SHALL be _______. ANS 🗹🗹: Public
Q: Identify all magistrates in the state of Texas. ANS 🗹🗹: Supreme Court, Court of
Criminal Appeals, Court of Appeals, District Courts and certain judges from county, and
includes Justice of the Peace, Mayers, Recorders, Municipal judges of incorporated cities
or towns.
Q: When a magistrate sits for the purpose of inquiring into a criminal accusation against
any person, this is called a _______. ANS 🗹🗹: Examining Court
Q: Special Investigators are not _______, but have the rights of arrest, search and seizure
in felony cases in Texas. ANS 🗹🗹: Peace officers
