Colorado POST Review Exam Edition 2026/2027 | Complete Exam
Questions and Accurate Answers with Full Explanations
(Already Passed A+)
• 4th Amendment -✓✓Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures; think
warrants, probable cause, reasonableness, and recognized exceptions.
• 5th Amendment -✓✓Protects against compelled self-incrimination and supports
due process.
• 6th Amendment -✓✓Protects the right to counsel and other core trial rights.
• 14th Amendment -✓✓Applies due process and equal protection principles to the
states.
• What is reasonable suspicion? -✓✓Specific and articulable facts, plus rational
inferences, that criminal activity is occurring, has occurred, or is about to occur.
• What is probable cause? -✓✓Facts and circumstances that would lead a
reasonable person to believe a crime was committed and the person committed it,
or that evidence of a crime will be found.
• Terry stop -✓✓Brief detention based on reasonable suspicion.
• Terry frisk -✓✓Limited pat-down for weapons when the officer reasonably
suspects the person may be armed and dangerous.
• Scenario: You can point to specific facts that a subject may be involved in a
crime, but you do not yet have probable cause. What level of justification do you
likely have? -✓✓Reasonable suspicion.
• Scenario: During a lawful stop, the subject keeps reaching toward the waistband
and ignoring commands. What additional action may be justified? -✓✓A limited
pat-down for weapons if the officer reasonably suspects a safety threat.
• Miranda trigger -✓✓Custody plus interrogation.
, • Miranda rule -✓✓Before custodial interrogation, the suspect must be advised of
core rights.
• Brady rule -✓✓The government must disclose exculpatory or impeachment
evidence favorable to the defense.
• Mapp rule -✓✓Unlawfully obtained evidence may be excluded under the
exclusionary rule.
• Riley rule -✓✓A cell phone generally cannot be searched incident to arrest
without a warrant.
• Gant rule -✓✓A vehicle search incident to arrest is limited and is not automatic
just because an arrest occurred.
• Carroll rule -✓✓A vehicle may be searched without a warrant when the legal
basis for the automobile exception exists.
• Chimel rule -✓✓A search incident to arrest is limited to the arrestee and the area
within immediate control.
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms rule -✓✓During a lawful traffic stop, the driver can be
ordered out of the vehicle.
• Rodriguez rule -✓✓A traffic stop cannot be prolonged beyond its mission
without separate legal justification.
• Florida v. Jardines rule -✓✓Using a drug dog at the front door of a home can be a
search because of home and curtilage protections.
• Mincey rule -✓✓There is no blanket murder-scene exception to the warrant
requirement.
• Brewer rule -✓✓Deliberate elicitation after the right to counsel has attached
creates major constitutional issues.
Questions and Accurate Answers with Full Explanations
(Already Passed A+)
• 4th Amendment -✓✓Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures; think
warrants, probable cause, reasonableness, and recognized exceptions.
• 5th Amendment -✓✓Protects against compelled self-incrimination and supports
due process.
• 6th Amendment -✓✓Protects the right to counsel and other core trial rights.
• 14th Amendment -✓✓Applies due process and equal protection principles to the
states.
• What is reasonable suspicion? -✓✓Specific and articulable facts, plus rational
inferences, that criminal activity is occurring, has occurred, or is about to occur.
• What is probable cause? -✓✓Facts and circumstances that would lead a
reasonable person to believe a crime was committed and the person committed it,
or that evidence of a crime will be found.
• Terry stop -✓✓Brief detention based on reasonable suspicion.
• Terry frisk -✓✓Limited pat-down for weapons when the officer reasonably
suspects the person may be armed and dangerous.
• Scenario: You can point to specific facts that a subject may be involved in a
crime, but you do not yet have probable cause. What level of justification do you
likely have? -✓✓Reasonable suspicion.
• Scenario: During a lawful stop, the subject keeps reaching toward the waistband
and ignoring commands. What additional action may be justified? -✓✓A limited
pat-down for weapons if the officer reasonably suspects a safety threat.
• Miranda trigger -✓✓Custody plus interrogation.
, • Miranda rule -✓✓Before custodial interrogation, the suspect must be advised of
core rights.
• Brady rule -✓✓The government must disclose exculpatory or impeachment
evidence favorable to the defense.
• Mapp rule -✓✓Unlawfully obtained evidence may be excluded under the
exclusionary rule.
• Riley rule -✓✓A cell phone generally cannot be searched incident to arrest
without a warrant.
• Gant rule -✓✓A vehicle search incident to arrest is limited and is not automatic
just because an arrest occurred.
• Carroll rule -✓✓A vehicle may be searched without a warrant when the legal
basis for the automobile exception exists.
• Chimel rule -✓✓A search incident to arrest is limited to the arrestee and the area
within immediate control.
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms rule -✓✓During a lawful traffic stop, the driver can be
ordered out of the vehicle.
• Rodriguez rule -✓✓A traffic stop cannot be prolonged beyond its mission
without separate legal justification.
• Florida v. Jardines rule -✓✓Using a drug dog at the front door of a home can be a
search because of home and curtilage protections.
• Mincey rule -✓✓There is no blanket murder-scene exception to the warrant
requirement.
• Brewer rule -✓✓Deliberate elicitation after the right to counsel has attached
creates major constitutional issues.
