CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PRACTICE ACTUAL EXAM 120
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED ANSWERS ALREADY
GRADED A+ GUARANTEED
PASS
"Police are investigating the murder of V, who was found shot to death in a public parking
garage on June 1st. Police visit V's home several days later, and find V's mail stacked up on the
porch. They ask you if they need a warrant to photograph the return addresses on all of V's
mail. - CORRECT ANSWER=> No Warrant"
"Police are investigating the murder of V, who was found shot to death in a public parking
garage on June 1st. Police visit V's home several days later, and find V's mail stacked up on the
porch. They ask you if they need a warrant to photograph the return addresses on all of V's
mail. They ask if they need a warrant to open and read letters addressed to the deceased. -
CORRECT ANSWER=> Warrant"
"S is a suspect in a bombing of a house of worship. Police are treating the case as a hate crime.
They want to use their own subscriptions to review years of S's posts on facebook and tweets
on twitter. They ask if they need a warrant to do so - CORRECT ANSWER=> No Warrant"
"Police call you and say they have purchased a new drone system. The airborne drone can stay
aloft for six hours before returning to base. The drones are small (about the size of a robbin),
silent, and very difficult to detect even when their presence is suspected. Each drone can be
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,programmed to identify and follow particular license plates. Police ask you if they need
warrants to use this new technological marvel. - CORRECT ANSWER=> No Warrant"
"Police have probable cause to believe S is a courier for a drug operation. Their information
indicates that S delivers narcotics, carrying them in his backpack. Police call you and say that S
carries the backpack everywhere, although most of the time it doesn't have any drugs in it. They
say they're not interested in S but want to find the suppliers for whom S works. Then they tell
you that they have persuaded a professional pick pocket to work for the police, and the pick
pocket thinks it would be feasible to plant a tracking device in S's backpack. They ask you if they
need a warrant to do this. - CORRECT ANSWER=> Warrant"
"Police believe S is running a drug business. S lives with his girlfriend and her three children. S is
not the biological father, but has taken care of the children as his own, soccer games, church
and boy-band concerts included. Police nonetheless believe that one of the children is hostile to
S and can be persuaded to report to them what really goes on in the home. They ask if they
need a warrant to recruit the child as a spy. - CORRECT ANSWER=> No Warrant"
"Police suspect S of murdering V. The murder took place on June 1st in San Francisco. S lives in
San Diego. The detectives ask you if they can use subpoenas, rather than search warrants, to
obtain S's credit card records from the credit card companies for May 31st and June 1st, to see if
he spent any money in San Francisco near in time to the murder. - CORRECT ANSWER=> No
Warrant"
"Two defendants charged with possessing child pornography identify S as the person who
provided the illegal images to them via the internet. In transaction closely monitored by the
police, both informants download illegal images from a website police have probable cause to
believe is operated by S. Police obtain a warrant to arrest S. S is located while driving, pulled
over, and arrested on the warrant. After S is secured in a police car, officers call you and say they
see a notebook computer on the passenger side seat. They ask if they can try to read the files
on the computer without a warrant. - CORRECT ANSWER=> Warrant"
"Police call you and say that an inmate has escaped from the county jail. The police have
information that the escapee is hiding in the trunk of a car driven by a female accomplice. They
say they are stopping cars for traffic in the area of the escape. They want to use a thermal
imager to detect the presence of the suspect inside the trunk of each car they stop, and say
they many of their their patrol units have imagers, so that the thermal imaging won't add any
time to the traffic stops. They ask you if they can do this without a warrant. - CORRECT
ANSWER=> No Warrant"
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, "The officers approach S and ask to see his identification. S replies "I can't stop to talk, here
comes my train." As S rises from the bench, a westbound trolley pulled into the station at just
that moment.
The police reply: "We can't let you do that right now, there will be another in eight minutes."
Has S been seized? - CORRECT ANSWER=> YES"
"Should police move suspects from detainment or move victims to the suspect for
identification? - CORRECT ANSWER=> wait for police to bring victim to the suspect"
"Do the police need a warrant to use a drone to track a suspect's vehicle in public for four days?
- CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is not clear: Maybe they need a warrant."
"Do the police need a warrant to attach a secret transmitter to the suspect's vehicle when the
battery life on the transmitter is only one hour? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: Yes, they
need a warrant."
"If S is a celebrity who employs X, Y and Z as bodyguards, do the police need a warrant to pay X,
Y and Z to carry hidden location transmitters that give the police S's location data, 24/7, for
three months? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: No, they don't need a warrant."
"Do the police need a warrant to conceal a miniature camera in a tree in a public park across
the street from S's home, if the camera records and transmits a high-resolution image of every
person who enters or leaves for more than a year? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: No,
they don't need a warrant."
"If S has lived for months in a mobile home in a trailer park, receiving mail and paying utility
bills, do the police need a warrant to walk a drug-sniffing dog up the steps to the door of S's
mobile home? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: Yes, they need a warrant."
"If police on routine patrol in daylight hear what sounds like a gunshot inside S's house, may
they force entry without a warrant? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: No, they don't need a
warrant."
"If police on routine patrol in daylight hear what sounds like a gunshot inside S's house. May
they force entry without knocking and announcing their presence? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The
law is clear: No, they don't need to knock-and-announce."
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PRACTICE ACTUAL EXAM 120
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED ANSWERS ALREADY
GRADED A+ GUARANTEED
PASS
"Police are investigating the murder of V, who was found shot to death in a public parking
garage on June 1st. Police visit V's home several days later, and find V's mail stacked up on the
porch. They ask you if they need a warrant to photograph the return addresses on all of V's
mail. - CORRECT ANSWER=> No Warrant"
"Police are investigating the murder of V, who was found shot to death in a public parking
garage on June 1st. Police visit V's home several days later, and find V's mail stacked up on the
porch. They ask you if they need a warrant to photograph the return addresses on all of V's
mail. They ask if they need a warrant to open and read letters addressed to the deceased. -
CORRECT ANSWER=> Warrant"
"S is a suspect in a bombing of a house of worship. Police are treating the case as a hate crime.
They want to use their own subscriptions to review years of S's posts on facebook and tweets
on twitter. They ask if they need a warrant to do so - CORRECT ANSWER=> No Warrant"
"Police call you and say they have purchased a new drone system. The airborne drone can stay
aloft for six hours before returning to base. The drones are small (about the size of a robbin),
silent, and very difficult to detect even when their presence is suspected. Each drone can be
1|Page
,programmed to identify and follow particular license plates. Police ask you if they need
warrants to use this new technological marvel. - CORRECT ANSWER=> No Warrant"
"Police have probable cause to believe S is a courier for a drug operation. Their information
indicates that S delivers narcotics, carrying them in his backpack. Police call you and say that S
carries the backpack everywhere, although most of the time it doesn't have any drugs in it. They
say they're not interested in S but want to find the suppliers for whom S works. Then they tell
you that they have persuaded a professional pick pocket to work for the police, and the pick
pocket thinks it would be feasible to plant a tracking device in S's backpack. They ask you if they
need a warrant to do this. - CORRECT ANSWER=> Warrant"
"Police believe S is running a drug business. S lives with his girlfriend and her three children. S is
not the biological father, but has taken care of the children as his own, soccer games, church
and boy-band concerts included. Police nonetheless believe that one of the children is hostile to
S and can be persuaded to report to them what really goes on in the home. They ask if they
need a warrant to recruit the child as a spy. - CORRECT ANSWER=> No Warrant"
"Police suspect S of murdering V. The murder took place on June 1st in San Francisco. S lives in
San Diego. The detectives ask you if they can use subpoenas, rather than search warrants, to
obtain S's credit card records from the credit card companies for May 31st and June 1st, to see if
he spent any money in San Francisco near in time to the murder. - CORRECT ANSWER=> No
Warrant"
"Two defendants charged with possessing child pornography identify S as the person who
provided the illegal images to them via the internet. In transaction closely monitored by the
police, both informants download illegal images from a website police have probable cause to
believe is operated by S. Police obtain a warrant to arrest S. S is located while driving, pulled
over, and arrested on the warrant. After S is secured in a police car, officers call you and say they
see a notebook computer on the passenger side seat. They ask if they can try to read the files
on the computer without a warrant. - CORRECT ANSWER=> Warrant"
"Police call you and say that an inmate has escaped from the county jail. The police have
information that the escapee is hiding in the trunk of a car driven by a female accomplice. They
say they are stopping cars for traffic in the area of the escape. They want to use a thermal
imager to detect the presence of the suspect inside the trunk of each car they stop, and say
they many of their their patrol units have imagers, so that the thermal imaging won't add any
time to the traffic stops. They ask you if they can do this without a warrant. - CORRECT
ANSWER=> No Warrant"
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, "The officers approach S and ask to see his identification. S replies "I can't stop to talk, here
comes my train." As S rises from the bench, a westbound trolley pulled into the station at just
that moment.
The police reply: "We can't let you do that right now, there will be another in eight minutes."
Has S been seized? - CORRECT ANSWER=> YES"
"Should police move suspects from detainment or move victims to the suspect for
identification? - CORRECT ANSWER=> wait for police to bring victim to the suspect"
"Do the police need a warrant to use a drone to track a suspect's vehicle in public for four days?
- CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is not clear: Maybe they need a warrant."
"Do the police need a warrant to attach a secret transmitter to the suspect's vehicle when the
battery life on the transmitter is only one hour? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: Yes, they
need a warrant."
"If S is a celebrity who employs X, Y and Z as bodyguards, do the police need a warrant to pay X,
Y and Z to carry hidden location transmitters that give the police S's location data, 24/7, for
three months? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: No, they don't need a warrant."
"Do the police need a warrant to conceal a miniature camera in a tree in a public park across
the street from S's home, if the camera records and transmits a high-resolution image of every
person who enters or leaves for more than a year? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: No,
they don't need a warrant."
"If S has lived for months in a mobile home in a trailer park, receiving mail and paying utility
bills, do the police need a warrant to walk a drug-sniffing dog up the steps to the door of S's
mobile home? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: Yes, they need a warrant."
"If police on routine patrol in daylight hear what sounds like a gunshot inside S's house, may
they force entry without a warrant? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The law is clear: No, they don't need a
warrant."
"If police on routine patrol in daylight hear what sounds like a gunshot inside S's house. May
they force entry without knocking and announcing their presence? - CORRECT ANSWER=> The
law is clear: No, they don't need to knock-and-announce."
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