Texas DPS CID Exam Study Set
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No defendant can be convicted without? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Evidence
Officers two important roles concerning evidence? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Find
evidence with or without a warrant; helps the prosecutor get the evidence
admitted at trial.
The main duty of persecutors is? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To make sure justice is
done.
Brady VS Maryland - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the prosecution is required to disclose
all evidence to the accused
Even though an officer may obtain evidence properly under 4th amendment
it may not be admissible under Texas Constitution. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔EX.
Richardson VS. State. In federal law no right to privacy on numbers dialed
on a phone, but in Texas citizens have a right to privacy regarding numbers
dialed on a phone.
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,Reasonable search - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Supported by probable cause. 2)
search made with warrant or exception to warrant requirement.
Probable Cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Enough facts to show evidence of a crime
will be found
Exceptions to search warrant requirements. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Incident to
lawful arrest. 2) Terry search 3) Administrative search 4) Consent 5)Border,
airport, or roadblock 6) Inventory 7) Automobile 8) Emergency
Search defined - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Intrusion into an area covered by
reasonable expectation of privacy.
Areas of reasonable expectation of privacy. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) House and
curtilage 2) Car, van, motor home, or recreation vehicle 3) Persons body
including blood 4) Purse, wallet, and suitcase 5) Backpack 6) Hotel room 7)
Telephone booth 8) Desk and private office 9) Private dressing room in
club 10) Bathroom stall 11) Box or envelope 12) Diary or personal letter 13)
Numbers dialed from a phone
No expectation of privacy. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Garbage placed on curb for
collection 2) Photo of persons wound or injury 3) Persons facial
appearance 4) Public waiting room at doctors office 5) Dressing room at
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,store if customer informed room under surveillance for shoplifting 6) Hotel
room where manager calls to vacate person who's not paid or time is
expired 7) Public street, building or area which public given access 8)
common area where public may go 9) Automotive VIN 10) Bank account
info voluntarily given to a bank 11) Monitoring beeper used to follow
transport of drugs 12) Allowing drug detection K9 to sniff piece of luggage
in public place 13) VIN located on vehicle dash or door jamb 14) Prison cell
Plain View Doctrine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔4th Amendment does not cover
something when its in plain view
Plain Touch Doctrine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔During a proper pat down for
weapons if officer detects something that is immediately apparent to be
drugs or weapons, the officer may seize without a warrant.
Public Scent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When a drug dog detects contraband in a
public place it is not a search.
K9 Sniff - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sniff around exterior of car in a public place
during a valid traffic stop = no violation of 4th Amendment
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, Abandonment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔If person voluntarily abandons property,
officer may retrieve it and no search occurred. Excludes when officer
attempts to stop person for no reason, person throws drugs and runs away.
Standing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Persons right to complain about an improper
search at trail.
Warrant Contents - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) labeled in the name of "The State of
Texas" 2) Statement describing the evidence to be taken and person,
place, or thing to be searched 3) Must command a peace officer 4) Must be
signed by a judge
Warrant issued to photograph an injured child. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Must
name or describe the child to be photographed 2) Film is delivered to judge
3) Must be executed by an officer that is the same sex as the child; If the
officer is not he same sex as the child they must be assisted by someone
who is the same sex as the child/victim.
Warrant for Fire Marshal and Health officers (Determine hazards or
violations) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Must have PC. 1) Age and condition of place 2)
Previous Violations 3) Type of place to be searched 4) Purpose of which
place used 5) Presence of violations or hazards
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2025/2026 Exam Questions with 100%
Correct Answers | Latest Update
No defendant can be convicted without? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Evidence
Officers two important roles concerning evidence? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Find
evidence with or without a warrant; helps the prosecutor get the evidence
admitted at trial.
The main duty of persecutors is? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To make sure justice is
done.
Brady VS Maryland - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the prosecution is required to disclose
all evidence to the accused
Even though an officer may obtain evidence properly under 4th amendment
it may not be admissible under Texas Constitution. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔EX.
Richardson VS. State. In federal law no right to privacy on numbers dialed
on a phone, but in Texas citizens have a right to privacy regarding numbers
dialed on a phone.
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
1
,Reasonable search - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Supported by probable cause. 2)
search made with warrant or exception to warrant requirement.
Probable Cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Enough facts to show evidence of a crime
will be found
Exceptions to search warrant requirements. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Incident to
lawful arrest. 2) Terry search 3) Administrative search 4) Consent 5)Border,
airport, or roadblock 6) Inventory 7) Automobile 8) Emergency
Search defined - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Intrusion into an area covered by
reasonable expectation of privacy.
Areas of reasonable expectation of privacy. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) House and
curtilage 2) Car, van, motor home, or recreation vehicle 3) Persons body
including blood 4) Purse, wallet, and suitcase 5) Backpack 6) Hotel room 7)
Telephone booth 8) Desk and private office 9) Private dressing room in
club 10) Bathroom stall 11) Box or envelope 12) Diary or personal letter 13)
Numbers dialed from a phone
No expectation of privacy. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Garbage placed on curb for
collection 2) Photo of persons wound or injury 3) Persons facial
appearance 4) Public waiting room at doctors office 5) Dressing room at
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,store if customer informed room under surveillance for shoplifting 6) Hotel
room where manager calls to vacate person who's not paid or time is
expired 7) Public street, building or area which public given access 8)
common area where public may go 9) Automotive VIN 10) Bank account
info voluntarily given to a bank 11) Monitoring beeper used to follow
transport of drugs 12) Allowing drug detection K9 to sniff piece of luggage
in public place 13) VIN located on vehicle dash or door jamb 14) Prison cell
Plain View Doctrine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔4th Amendment does not cover
something when its in plain view
Plain Touch Doctrine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔During a proper pat down for
weapons if officer detects something that is immediately apparent to be
drugs or weapons, the officer may seize without a warrant.
Public Scent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When a drug dog detects contraband in a
public place it is not a search.
K9 Sniff - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sniff around exterior of car in a public place
during a valid traffic stop = no violation of 4th Amendment
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, Abandonment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔If person voluntarily abandons property,
officer may retrieve it and no search occurred. Excludes when officer
attempts to stop person for no reason, person throws drugs and runs away.
Standing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Persons right to complain about an improper
search at trail.
Warrant Contents - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) labeled in the name of "The State of
Texas" 2) Statement describing the evidence to be taken and person,
place, or thing to be searched 3) Must command a peace officer 4) Must be
signed by a judge
Warrant issued to photograph an injured child. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Must
name or describe the child to be photographed 2) Film is delivered to judge
3) Must be executed by an officer that is the same sex as the child; If the
officer is not he same sex as the child they must be assisted by someone
who is the same sex as the child/victim.
Warrant for Fire Marshal and Health officers (Determine hazards or
violations) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Must have PC. 1) Age and condition of place 2)
Previous Violations 3) Type of place to be searched 4) Purpose of which
place used 5) Presence of violations or hazards
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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