GPSTC PRACTICE TEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Corrections, police, courts - ✔✔3 components of the criminal justice system?
✔✔credibility - ✔✔believable or worthy of trust
✔✔Mens Rea - ✔✔guilty mind, criminal intent
✔✔25 mph - ✔✔Slow emblem required at what speed?
✔✔30 mph - ✔✔Speed limit in a residential area?
✔✔4th Amendment - ✔✔unreasonable searches and seizures
✔✔14th Amendment - ✔✔equal rights to all citizens born or naturalized in the US
✔✔Mapp v. Ohio - ✔✔what case established the exclusionary rule for everyone?
✔✔search, seize, arrest - ✔✔probable cause is the basis to.....
✔✔Criminal, Civil, Administrative - ✔✔What are the three types of legal liability?
✔✔10 days - ✔✔How much time do you have to serve a search warrant?
✔✔72 hours - ✔✔How much time do you have to bring an arrestee to a judicial officer?
✔✔frisk - ✔✔the PAT DOWN of an individuals OUTER clothing to determine whether he
is carrying a weapon
✔✔seizure doctrine - ✔✔is the plain view doctrine a seizure doctrine or a search
doctrine?
✔✔16-3-21 - ✔✔use of force in the defense of self or others
✔✔48 hours - ✔✔how long do you have to obtain an arrest warrant?
✔✔exclusionary rule - ✔✔evidence illegally obtained will not be admissible in court
✔✔good faith exception - ✔✔What exclusionary rule exception is not applicable in GA?
✔✔17-4-20b - ✔✔deadly force for cops
, ✔✔17-4-20a - ✔✔authority to arrest/arrest powers
✔✔Articulable Reasonable Suspicion (ARS) - ✔✔the belief by a reasonable person that
the suspect violated a law or regulation. to meet this standard, LEO's must articulate the
facts they believe show a suspect has committed a crime
✔✔True - ✔✔Probable cause must exist if an arrest occurs.
T or F?
✔✔Whatever force is REASONABLE - ✔✔How much force can be used to affect an
arrest?
✔✔arrest - ✔✔Restricting a persons movement
✔✔Graham v. Connor - ✔✔What court case established objective reasonableness?
✔✔Terry v. Ohio - ✔✔Stop and Frisk. What case?
✔✔Actual and Constructive - ✔✔What are the 2 types of seizures?
✔✔seizure - ✔✔a government termination of movement through means intentionally
applied
✔✔1. Verbal Encounter
2. Brief Seizure
3. Arrest - ✔✔What are the Tiers of Police/Citizen contact?
✔✔4 Graham Factors - ✔✔1. severity of the offense
2. immediate threat to the safety of officer or others
3. actively resisting arrest
4. evading arrest by flight
✔✔Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) - ✔✔the chemical measurement of alcohol in the
blood expressed as .grams per 100 milliliters of blood
✔✔Homicide by vehicle - ✔✔w/o malice afterthought, causes death of another person
through violation of overtaking and passing school bus, DUI, reckless driving, or fleeing
or attempting to elude w/ vehicle
✔✔void - ✔✔What happens to a search warrant not served w/i 10 days?
✔✔w/i 60 days - ✔✔How many days do you have to change your address or name on
license?
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Corrections, police, courts - ✔✔3 components of the criminal justice system?
✔✔credibility - ✔✔believable or worthy of trust
✔✔Mens Rea - ✔✔guilty mind, criminal intent
✔✔25 mph - ✔✔Slow emblem required at what speed?
✔✔30 mph - ✔✔Speed limit in a residential area?
✔✔4th Amendment - ✔✔unreasonable searches and seizures
✔✔14th Amendment - ✔✔equal rights to all citizens born or naturalized in the US
✔✔Mapp v. Ohio - ✔✔what case established the exclusionary rule for everyone?
✔✔search, seize, arrest - ✔✔probable cause is the basis to.....
✔✔Criminal, Civil, Administrative - ✔✔What are the three types of legal liability?
✔✔10 days - ✔✔How much time do you have to serve a search warrant?
✔✔72 hours - ✔✔How much time do you have to bring an arrestee to a judicial officer?
✔✔frisk - ✔✔the PAT DOWN of an individuals OUTER clothing to determine whether he
is carrying a weapon
✔✔seizure doctrine - ✔✔is the plain view doctrine a seizure doctrine or a search
doctrine?
✔✔16-3-21 - ✔✔use of force in the defense of self or others
✔✔48 hours - ✔✔how long do you have to obtain an arrest warrant?
✔✔exclusionary rule - ✔✔evidence illegally obtained will not be admissible in court
✔✔good faith exception - ✔✔What exclusionary rule exception is not applicable in GA?
✔✔17-4-20b - ✔✔deadly force for cops
, ✔✔17-4-20a - ✔✔authority to arrest/arrest powers
✔✔Articulable Reasonable Suspicion (ARS) - ✔✔the belief by a reasonable person that
the suspect violated a law or regulation. to meet this standard, LEO's must articulate the
facts they believe show a suspect has committed a crime
✔✔True - ✔✔Probable cause must exist if an arrest occurs.
T or F?
✔✔Whatever force is REASONABLE - ✔✔How much force can be used to affect an
arrest?
✔✔arrest - ✔✔Restricting a persons movement
✔✔Graham v. Connor - ✔✔What court case established objective reasonableness?
✔✔Terry v. Ohio - ✔✔Stop and Frisk. What case?
✔✔Actual and Constructive - ✔✔What are the 2 types of seizures?
✔✔seizure - ✔✔a government termination of movement through means intentionally
applied
✔✔1. Verbal Encounter
2. Brief Seizure
3. Arrest - ✔✔What are the Tiers of Police/Citizen contact?
✔✔4 Graham Factors - ✔✔1. severity of the offense
2. immediate threat to the safety of officer or others
3. actively resisting arrest
4. evading arrest by flight
✔✔Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) - ✔✔the chemical measurement of alcohol in the
blood expressed as .grams per 100 milliliters of blood
✔✔Homicide by vehicle - ✔✔w/o malice afterthought, causes death of another person
through violation of overtaking and passing school bus, DUI, reckless driving, or fleeing
or attempting to elude w/ vehicle
✔✔void - ✔✔What happens to a search warrant not served w/i 10 days?
✔✔w/i 60 days - ✔✔How many days do you have to change your address or name on
license?
