RBC 3 - LD Example Questions With Complete Answers!!

3:30am and your patrolling a parking lot with a jewelry store. You notice a HMA with a hoodie looking inside the window of the jewelry store. You approach him. Consensual or detention? - Censensual Encounter An area or object means having enough facts or information to provide a fair probability, or a substantial chance, that the item sought is located in the place to be searched. What type of search is this? 1. Probable cause search 2. Seizure search 3. Reasonable suspicion search 3. Warrantless search - Probable Cause Search A family arrived at a campground in their motor home. The property manager offered the lot for free if the family would agree to pay for the utilities. The father agreed, even though he knew they would not have enough money to do so. After five weeks, the family drove off late one night without telling the manager and not paying the $360 bill. What crime did The father commit? And PC - PC 537 Defraud an Innkeeper A woman knew that her boss owned several expensive coins and kept them at his home. While he was away on business, she decided to go to his apartment to steal hiscoin collection. She entered the apartment with the key he kept in his desk at the office. She went to the drawer where the coins were stored; however, they weren't there. She quickly left the apartment. She committed what crime? - Burglary Officers with a warrant set off firecrackers to simulate gunfire, then asked the occupants inside the fortress-like house to come outside to check their vehicles for damage. Once the barricades to the home were down, the officers announced their identity and authority to conduct a search. This is called a what type of entry? Legal Entry Search Entry Consent Entry Ruse Entry Warrantless entry - Ruse Entry During a search authorized by a search warrant, officers are limited by the information specified in the search warrant. This is known what type of search? Scope of the search Warrantless search Indoor searchExecution search - Scope of the search Two officers conducting a valid, warrantless administrative inspection of an automobile repair shop came across evidence of drugs in plain view and through plain smell. Do the officers have legal authority to seize the evidence? - Yes because they were conducting other legal business in that location In deciding whether a warrantless search or seizure was legal, courts will always consider ___________________. However, peace officers must always have specific facts to demonstrate the search or seizure fell within one of the exceptions to the warrant requirement. All the facts Totality of the circumstances Reasonable suspicion Probable cause - Totality of the circumstances An officer was in a hotel room questioning a female companion of a man who had been arrested for armed robbery earlier that day. In the course of the questioning, the woman grabbed her make-up bag from a nearby dresser. Because it was reasonable to suspect that the woman might be reaching for a weapon, the officer seized the bag. When the officer realized the bag was heavy and large enough to potentially contain a weapon, he opened the bag to search it. Is the officer able to search the bag even though he did not see an imprint of a weapon in a pat down/frisk search? - Yes While on routine patrol one morning, two officers spotted a young man looking into parked cars in an alley where there had been earlier complaints of vehicle tampering. As the officers drove by slowly, the man tried to hide behind a dumpster. When the officers approached him, the man became nervous, boisterous, and antagonistic. Can the officers conduct lawfully frisk/pat search him for weapons or potential weapons? - Yes A man picked up his girlfriend in a car he had stolen. He bragged to her how easy it was to steal the car. They tookturns driving the car around until it ran out of gas and then they abandoned it. Who is guilty of vehicle theft? - Both are charged with vehicle theft since they both drove the car with intent to temporarily deprive, even if the girlfriend did not take the car. At 3:30 a.m., a woman was seen at the rear door of a closed building in an area where a number of recent burglaries had taken place. The officers stopped their vehicle and asked her if she needed any help. She acted nervous and shifted her weight from foot to foot. In doing so, a set of lock picks fell from her pocket. She could not credibly answer why she had the picks. Can the officers arrest her? What PC if they can arrest? - The officers could arrest her for PC 466 possession of burglary tools An employer asked his employee to have a copy of the master key made for the new vice president. The employee changed the number of keys on the request form and kept the extra key, planning to enter his employer's office after hours and steal office equipment. The employer noticed that an additional key was billed on the receipt and confronted the employee, who admitted the deceit. What can he be charged with? - The employee committed the crime of possession of burglary tools by having a key made with intent to commit a theft A man stole $2000 in jewelry. He gave an engagement ring and a diamond necklace to his girlfriend and admitted that he had stolen them. When he was arrested, she hid the jewelry and claimed she never received them. The police obtained a search warrant and found the jewelry hidden inher apartment. WhT crime has she committed? - She committed the crime of receiving stolen property because she concealed property known to be stolen. One night a woman entered her ex-boyfriend's home through an open window and waited for him to come home. When he arrived, the woman began professing her undying love for him. When she refused to leave, he called law enforcement. PC 602 Or PC 602.5 - PC 602.5 - She committed the crime of unauthorized entry of property as she did not have consent to enter his Home. A homeless man found a vacant apartment with a broken out window. He climbed through the window and lived there for three months until the owner found him. Is this: PC 602 OrPC 602.5 - PC 602 - He committed the crime of trespass (entering and occupying real property) as he occupied the real property without the consent of the owner Three teenagers followed one of their teachers home. That night, the teens climbed over the teacher's fence, intending to spray paint the teacher's house. The teacher ordered them to leave, when they didn't the husband called law enforcement. Is this: PC 602 Or PC 602.5 - PC 602 - The teenagers committed trespass (entering land) because they entered the land with intent to injure property and did not leave when requested. A male defendant contests the search of his tool box that he had locked and placed in a friend's garage. By locking the tool box, the owner demonstrated an expected level of privacy over its contents. Who has standing over the tool box? - Only the owner of the tool box, not the friend who owned the garage, would have standing to challenge the legality of the search of the tool box Neighbors complained about a run-down garage with stripped cars in back andlots of activity during normal work hours as well as unusual hours at night. Most of the reported activity did not involve pumping gas or other typical gas station activities. Officers had suspected the existence of a stolen car "chop shop" within that particular neighborhood that was tied to gang activity. Is there anything illegal happening here? Are officers able to make entry into the garage? What is the next step the officers should request? - Although nothing illegal had taken place at the site, this information contributed toward probable cause to obtain a search warrant. A man had an argument with his neighbor. The man threw turpentine on the hood of his neighbor's car and causing $900 in damage to the paint.