MN POST 2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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✔✔518B.01 Domestic Abuse - OFP/DANCO - ✔✔Violations:
M - violate served order
GM - violate order within 10 yrs of previous qualified DV-related conviction
F - violate order within 10 yrs of first of 2 or more previous qualified DV-related
convictions, or possesses dangerous weapon
OFP good for 2yrs unless extended
Officer shall arrest without warrant within 72 hours of establishing PC, must advise
victim of services and provide victim rights card
✔✔609.2247 Domestic Assault by Strangulation - ✔✔F
- assaults family or household member by strangulation
✔✔609.748 harassment restraining order - ✔✔M - violate served order
GM - violate within 10 years of previous qualified DV-related conviction
F - violate order within 10 yrs of first of 2 or more previous qualified DV-related
convictions, or possesses dangerous weapon, or victim under 18, or bias
✔✔609.749 stalking - ✔✔GM - follows, monitors, pursues another, calls, mails
F - motivated by bias, possession of dangerous weapon, under 18, 2nd offense/pattern
✔✔609.342 Criminal Sexual Conduct 1st degree - ✔✔- penetration
- victim under 13, more than 36 months older
- 13 to 16, position of authority, 48 mos older
- under 16, significant relationship
- physical injury or use of force
✔✔Misdemeanor arrest situations (3) - ✔✔- officer observed offense
- statutory exceptions
, - citizen's arrest
✔✔Misdemeanor arrest statutory exceptions - ✔✔- domestic assault
- trespassing on school property
- shoplifting
- DANCO/OFP violation
- DWI
- interfering with 911 call
✔✔Exigent Circumstances - ✔✔when there is an immediate threat to public safety or
the risk that evidence will be destroyed, officers may search, arrest, or question
suspects without obtaining a warrant or following other usual rules of criminal procedure
✔✔direct evidence - ✔✔Evidence that establishes the validity of a fact that is in
question without relying on inference
✔✔circumstantial evidence - ✔✔evidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly
(indirect evidence)
✔✔5 elements of a crime - ✔✔actus reus, mens rea, concurrence, causation, harm
✔✔629.32 minimum restraint allowed for arrest; warrant shown upon request - ✔✔-
officer may not subject person arrested to any more restraint than is necessary for
arrest/detention
- officer shall inform defendant that officer is acting under warrant and shall show
warrant when requested
✔✔629.33 When Force May Be Used to Make an Arrest - ✔✔- officer may use all
necessary and lawful means to arrest if defendant flees or forcibly resists
- may not use deadly force unless authorized by 609.066
- may break inner or outer door or window to gain entrance
✔✔Juvenile justice system components (3) - ✔✔police, courts, corrections
✔✔Burden of proof (civil) - ✔✔- preponderance of the evidence
- burden on plaintiff
✔✔burden of proof (criminal) - ✔✔- Proof beyond a reasonable doubt
- burden on prosecutor
✔✔options for pre-trial release (6) - ✔✔- cash only
- bail
- bond
- indigent
- condition
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✔✔518B.01 Domestic Abuse - OFP/DANCO - ✔✔Violations:
M - violate served order
GM - violate order within 10 yrs of previous qualified DV-related conviction
F - violate order within 10 yrs of first of 2 or more previous qualified DV-related
convictions, or possesses dangerous weapon
OFP good for 2yrs unless extended
Officer shall arrest without warrant within 72 hours of establishing PC, must advise
victim of services and provide victim rights card
✔✔609.2247 Domestic Assault by Strangulation - ✔✔F
- assaults family or household member by strangulation
✔✔609.748 harassment restraining order - ✔✔M - violate served order
GM - violate within 10 years of previous qualified DV-related conviction
F - violate order within 10 yrs of first of 2 or more previous qualified DV-related
convictions, or possesses dangerous weapon, or victim under 18, or bias
✔✔609.749 stalking - ✔✔GM - follows, monitors, pursues another, calls, mails
F - motivated by bias, possession of dangerous weapon, under 18, 2nd offense/pattern
✔✔609.342 Criminal Sexual Conduct 1st degree - ✔✔- penetration
- victim under 13, more than 36 months older
- 13 to 16, position of authority, 48 mos older
- under 16, significant relationship
- physical injury or use of force
✔✔Misdemeanor arrest situations (3) - ✔✔- officer observed offense
- statutory exceptions
, - citizen's arrest
✔✔Misdemeanor arrest statutory exceptions - ✔✔- domestic assault
- trespassing on school property
- shoplifting
- DANCO/OFP violation
- DWI
- interfering with 911 call
✔✔Exigent Circumstances - ✔✔when there is an immediate threat to public safety or
the risk that evidence will be destroyed, officers may search, arrest, or question
suspects without obtaining a warrant or following other usual rules of criminal procedure
✔✔direct evidence - ✔✔Evidence that establishes the validity of a fact that is in
question without relying on inference
✔✔circumstantial evidence - ✔✔evidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly
(indirect evidence)
✔✔5 elements of a crime - ✔✔actus reus, mens rea, concurrence, causation, harm
✔✔629.32 minimum restraint allowed for arrest; warrant shown upon request - ✔✔-
officer may not subject person arrested to any more restraint than is necessary for
arrest/detention
- officer shall inform defendant that officer is acting under warrant and shall show
warrant when requested
✔✔629.33 When Force May Be Used to Make an Arrest - ✔✔- officer may use all
necessary and lawful means to arrest if defendant flees or forcibly resists
- may not use deadly force unless authorized by 609.066
- may break inner or outer door or window to gain entrance
✔✔Juvenile justice system components (3) - ✔✔police, courts, corrections
✔✔Burden of proof (civil) - ✔✔- preponderance of the evidence
- burden on plaintiff
✔✔burden of proof (criminal) - ✔✔- Proof beyond a reasonable doubt
- burden on prosecutor
✔✔options for pre-trial release (6) - ✔✔- cash only
- bail
- bond
- indigent
- condition
