TLETA WEEK 1 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS ||
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1. Ethics - ANSWER ✔ Caught not taught
2. What does Modern day policing come from? - ANSWER ✔ English Law
3. What is the Court Structure? - ANSWER ✔ Supreme Court, Court of
criminal appeals, appeals court, Circuit court or Criminal court, municipal
and general sessions
4. What is the Legal Hierarchy? - ANSWER ✔ Federal Laws, State laws,
Local laws
5. What are the steps to State court? - ANSWER ✔ Arrest, general sessions,
grand jury, trial, appeal
6. 3 Checks of Probable cause/Arrest - ANSWER ✔ Initial
appearance/preliminary hearing, general sessions, grand jury
7. Levels of Proof - ANSWER ✔ Mere suspicion, reasonable suspicion, P/C,
beyond a reasonable doubt
,8. What is a magistrate? - ANSWER ✔ An officer having power to issue a
warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense
9. Who are considered magistrates? - ANSWER ✔ Judicial commissioners,
judges of circuit & Criminal courts, Supreme Court, general sessions judges,
city judges or juvenile judges
10.what is mittimus? - ANSWER ✔ Order in writing
11.What is the exclusionary rule? - ANSWER ✔ Must show exigent
circumstances as above, but can't create exigent circumstances
12.What do you do in the case of In state Out of County Warrants? - ANSWER
✔ Evidence is in state but out of county Search warrant delivered to officer
of the county where evidence is located for service, they should execute
warrant, and you can be present
13.(Dillon v. State) - ANSWER ✔ When the search is conducted in foreign
jurisdictions by independently acting outside agencies, the law of the outside
jurisdiction determines validity
14.(State v. Cauley) - ANSWER ✔ Evidence used in TN courtroom obtained at
the behest of TN authorities pursuant to their own investigation of a crime
occurring within our utional search and seizure principles apply
15.Anticipatory Search Warrants - ANSWER ✔ Probable cause to believe that
evidence of illegal activity will be found at a particular place at a time in the
future ( Ex. arrival of a drug package) Affidavit should inform magistrate of
, known or suspected contraband delivered in immediate future and the basis
for the affiant's knowledge Warrant be executed upon occurrence of
specified event
16.Strip Search: - ANSWER ✔ to permit visual inspection of the genitals,
buttocks, anus, female breasts or Having an arrested person remove or
arrange some or all of the person's clothing so as undergarments of the
arrested person Should not be done EXCEPT in cases involving weapons, a
controlled substance or controlled substance analogue
17.To charge someone with a crime, you must have what 3 criteria? -
ANSWER ✔ 1. elements of the offense are all met; 2. culpable mental state
(depending on the offense), 3. meet jurisdiction requirements
18.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against persons? -
ANSWER ✔ TCA 39-13
19.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against property? -
ANSWER ✔ TCA 39-14
20.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against family? - ANSWER
✔ TCA 39-15
21.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against administration of the
government? - ANSWER ✔ TCA 39-16
22.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against public
health/safety/welfare? - ANSWER ✔ TCA 39-17
, 23.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against traffic laws? -
ANSWER ✔ TCA 55
24.Criminal homicide is just a holding charge in TN until you can determine
what? - ANSWER ✔ culpable mental state
25.Aggravated vs non-aggravated? - ANSWER ✔ aggravated -> caused by
weapons or injury
26.Burglary vs aggravated burglary? - ANSWER ✔ aggravated burglary
contains the element of assault
27.What are the 2 major issues that get officers in trouble? - ANSWER ✔ one
instructor says - criminal trespass and disorderly conduct; another instructor
says - excessive force and false arrest
(???)
28.When is theft a misdemeanor v felony? - ANSWER ✔ misdemeanor =
property is $1000 or less; felony = property is more than $1000
29.Name the 3 types of statutory rape. - ANSWER ✔ 1. mitigated, 2. statutory,
3. aggravated
30."Sexual penetration of a victim by the defendant (or vice versa) when the
victim is 15-18 years old, and the defendant is 4-5 years older than the
victim." = ? - ANSWER ✔ mitigated stat rape
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<NEWEST VERSION>
1. Ethics - ANSWER ✔ Caught not taught
2. What does Modern day policing come from? - ANSWER ✔ English Law
3. What is the Court Structure? - ANSWER ✔ Supreme Court, Court of
criminal appeals, appeals court, Circuit court or Criminal court, municipal
and general sessions
4. What is the Legal Hierarchy? - ANSWER ✔ Federal Laws, State laws,
Local laws
5. What are the steps to State court? - ANSWER ✔ Arrest, general sessions,
grand jury, trial, appeal
6. 3 Checks of Probable cause/Arrest - ANSWER ✔ Initial
appearance/preliminary hearing, general sessions, grand jury
7. Levels of Proof - ANSWER ✔ Mere suspicion, reasonable suspicion, P/C,
beyond a reasonable doubt
,8. What is a magistrate? - ANSWER ✔ An officer having power to issue a
warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense
9. Who are considered magistrates? - ANSWER ✔ Judicial commissioners,
judges of circuit & Criminal courts, Supreme Court, general sessions judges,
city judges or juvenile judges
10.what is mittimus? - ANSWER ✔ Order in writing
11.What is the exclusionary rule? - ANSWER ✔ Must show exigent
circumstances as above, but can't create exigent circumstances
12.What do you do in the case of In state Out of County Warrants? - ANSWER
✔ Evidence is in state but out of county Search warrant delivered to officer
of the county where evidence is located for service, they should execute
warrant, and you can be present
13.(Dillon v. State) - ANSWER ✔ When the search is conducted in foreign
jurisdictions by independently acting outside agencies, the law of the outside
jurisdiction determines validity
14.(State v. Cauley) - ANSWER ✔ Evidence used in TN courtroom obtained at
the behest of TN authorities pursuant to their own investigation of a crime
occurring within our utional search and seizure principles apply
15.Anticipatory Search Warrants - ANSWER ✔ Probable cause to believe that
evidence of illegal activity will be found at a particular place at a time in the
future ( Ex. arrival of a drug package) Affidavit should inform magistrate of
, known or suspected contraband delivered in immediate future and the basis
for the affiant's knowledge Warrant be executed upon occurrence of
specified event
16.Strip Search: - ANSWER ✔ to permit visual inspection of the genitals,
buttocks, anus, female breasts or Having an arrested person remove or
arrange some or all of the person's clothing so as undergarments of the
arrested person Should not be done EXCEPT in cases involving weapons, a
controlled substance or controlled substance analogue
17.To charge someone with a crime, you must have what 3 criteria? -
ANSWER ✔ 1. elements of the offense are all met; 2. culpable mental state
(depending on the offense), 3. meet jurisdiction requirements
18.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against persons? -
ANSWER ✔ TCA 39-13
19.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against property? -
ANSWER ✔ TCA 39-14
20.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against family? - ANSWER
✔ TCA 39-15
21.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against administration of the
government? - ANSWER ✔ TCA 39-16
22.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against public
health/safety/welfare? - ANSWER ✔ TCA 39-17
, 23.What criminal code in TCA deals with offenses against traffic laws? -
ANSWER ✔ TCA 55
24.Criminal homicide is just a holding charge in TN until you can determine
what? - ANSWER ✔ culpable mental state
25.Aggravated vs non-aggravated? - ANSWER ✔ aggravated -> caused by
weapons or injury
26.Burglary vs aggravated burglary? - ANSWER ✔ aggravated burglary
contains the element of assault
27.What are the 2 major issues that get officers in trouble? - ANSWER ✔ one
instructor says - criminal trespass and disorderly conduct; another instructor
says - excessive force and false arrest
(???)
28.When is theft a misdemeanor v felony? - ANSWER ✔ misdemeanor =
property is $1000 or less; felony = property is more than $1000
29.Name the 3 types of statutory rape. - ANSWER ✔ 1. mitigated, 2. statutory,
3. aggravated
30."Sexual penetration of a victim by the defendant (or vice versa) when the
victim is 15-18 years old, and the defendant is 4-5 years older than the
victim." = ? - ANSWER ✔ mitigated stat rape
