MPOETC Final Exam Study Guide
Questions And Answers
/. Types of Culpability - Answer-✅Intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, negligently
/.Felony 1 jail time - Answer-✅more than 10 years
/.Felony 2 Jail Time - Answer-✅Not more than 10 years
/.Felony 3 Jail Time - Answer-✅Not more than 7 years
/.Misdemeanor 1 Jail Time - Answer-✅Not more than 5 years
/.Misdemeanor 2 Jail TIme - Answer-✅Not more than 2 years
/.Misdemeanor 3 Jail Time - Answer-✅Not more than 1 year
/.Summary Offense - Answer-✅Not classified as a crime
No more than 90 Days in jail
Fine under 500$
/.Graham v Connor - Answer-✅Objectively Reasonable Standard
- would an officer facing a similar situation do something like/similar to the Officer
/.Tennesse v Garner - Answer-✅Deadly force is justified when
- the severity of the crime at issue
- whether the suspect posed an immediate threat to police officers or the public
- whether the suspect was actively resisting or trying to evade arrest by flight
/.Which amendment allows probable cause? - Answer-✅4th amendment
/.Instrument of a crime - Answer-✅anything that can be used to harm someone
ex. Burglary, crowbar or screwdriver etc
/.Criminal Mischief ex - Answer-✅Intentionally damages real or personal property of
another
ex. Beat neighbors car with a sledge
/.903 Conspirator - Answer-✅Agree to engage in a crime (attempt or solicitation)
Agrees to aid someone in a crime (attempt or solicitation)
, /.4th Amendment - Answer-✅Right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
/.Williams v Nix - Answer-✅Inevitable Discovery
US supreme court ruled that when police prove that illegally seized evidence would
have been legally discovered any way, then the evidence is admissible.
Commonwealth v Sparks: Inevitable discovery is adopted for police officers in PA
/.Mapp v Ohio - Answer-✅Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states
(evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
/.Arizona v Hicks - Answer-✅- Bullet fired through an apt. floor, police enter looking for
shooter/victims/weapons, they seize weapons and then notice stereo equipment, wrote
down serial numbers
- Exigent circumstances ended when weapons were seized, so stereo equipment is out
(needed a warrant and independent PC)
/.5th Amendment - Answer-✅The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due
process
/.6th Amendment - Answer-✅The right to a Speedy Trial by jury, representation by an
attorney for an accused person
/.8th Amendment - Answer-✅No cruel or unusual punishment
/.Levels of encounters - Answer-✅1-Mere Encounter
2-Investigatory Detention
3-Custody/Arrest
/.Totality of the Circumstances - Answer-✅All facts know to the Officer at the time, all
factors of a particular case, putting individuals pieces together
/.Probable cause - Answer-✅Facts and circumstances which would lead a reasonable
person to believe a crime has taken place and the person to be arrested committed that
crime
/.Courts in pa in order (lowest to highest) - Answer-✅Magistrates court
Court of common pleas
Commonwealth court
Superior court
Supreme Court
/.idek what to call this - Answer-✅Physical arrest -> preliminary arraignment ->
preliminary hearing -> formal arraignment -> sentencing
Questions And Answers
/. Types of Culpability - Answer-✅Intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, negligently
/.Felony 1 jail time - Answer-✅more than 10 years
/.Felony 2 Jail Time - Answer-✅Not more than 10 years
/.Felony 3 Jail Time - Answer-✅Not more than 7 years
/.Misdemeanor 1 Jail Time - Answer-✅Not more than 5 years
/.Misdemeanor 2 Jail TIme - Answer-✅Not more than 2 years
/.Misdemeanor 3 Jail Time - Answer-✅Not more than 1 year
/.Summary Offense - Answer-✅Not classified as a crime
No more than 90 Days in jail
Fine under 500$
/.Graham v Connor - Answer-✅Objectively Reasonable Standard
- would an officer facing a similar situation do something like/similar to the Officer
/.Tennesse v Garner - Answer-✅Deadly force is justified when
- the severity of the crime at issue
- whether the suspect posed an immediate threat to police officers or the public
- whether the suspect was actively resisting or trying to evade arrest by flight
/.Which amendment allows probable cause? - Answer-✅4th amendment
/.Instrument of a crime - Answer-✅anything that can be used to harm someone
ex. Burglary, crowbar or screwdriver etc
/.Criminal Mischief ex - Answer-✅Intentionally damages real or personal property of
another
ex. Beat neighbors car with a sledge
/.903 Conspirator - Answer-✅Agree to engage in a crime (attempt or solicitation)
Agrees to aid someone in a crime (attempt or solicitation)
, /.4th Amendment - Answer-✅Right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
/.Williams v Nix - Answer-✅Inevitable Discovery
US supreme court ruled that when police prove that illegally seized evidence would
have been legally discovered any way, then the evidence is admissible.
Commonwealth v Sparks: Inevitable discovery is adopted for police officers in PA
/.Mapp v Ohio - Answer-✅Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states
(evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
/.Arizona v Hicks - Answer-✅- Bullet fired through an apt. floor, police enter looking for
shooter/victims/weapons, they seize weapons and then notice stereo equipment, wrote
down serial numbers
- Exigent circumstances ended when weapons were seized, so stereo equipment is out
(needed a warrant and independent PC)
/.5th Amendment - Answer-✅The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due
process
/.6th Amendment - Answer-✅The right to a Speedy Trial by jury, representation by an
attorney for an accused person
/.8th Amendment - Answer-✅No cruel or unusual punishment
/.Levels of encounters - Answer-✅1-Mere Encounter
2-Investigatory Detention
3-Custody/Arrest
/.Totality of the Circumstances - Answer-✅All facts know to the Officer at the time, all
factors of a particular case, putting individuals pieces together
/.Probable cause - Answer-✅Facts and circumstances which would lead a reasonable
person to believe a crime has taken place and the person to be arrested committed that
crime
/.Courts in pa in order (lowest to highest) - Answer-✅Magistrates court
Court of common pleas
Commonwealth court
Superior court
Supreme Court
/.idek what to call this - Answer-✅Physical arrest -> preliminary arraignment ->
preliminary hearing -> formal arraignment -> sentencing
