Missouri POST Test Study Guide
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024)
A private or civil wrong or injury, other than a breach of
contract. - Correct Answer ✅ Tort
The amount of information needed to decide in favor of a
party in a civil suit. It consists of more than fifty percent of
the believable evidence in favor of the party's suit or defense.
One more fact than the other party has established. -
Correct Answer ✅ Preponderance of evidence
The amount of information needed to convict a person of a
crime. It is enough evidence to eliminate all reasonable
objections to the prosecution's case against a suspect. It is
not absolute proof, but it is more than probable cause. -
Correct Answer ✅ Proof beyond a reasonable doubt
Papers requiring you to appear in civil or criminal court. -
Correct Answer ✅ Summons
First 10 amendments of the constitution that guarantees
rights to all U.S. citizens. - Correct Answer ✅ Bill of Rights
,Missouri POST Test Study Guide
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024)
Obscenities, fighting words, commercial speech, defamation:
slander (spoken) or libel (written), incendiary speech, and
time, place, and manner restrictions on speech. - Correct
Answer ✅ Exceptions to the First Amendment
Connection - Correct Answer ✅ Nexus
1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th - Correct Answer ✅
Amendments typically applied to LEO's
Citizens are protected against unreasonable searches and
seizures against their person, property, and papers. - Correct
Answer ✅ 4th Amendment
Protection against self-incrimination and double jeopardy. Can
not hold a person without presentment or indictment of a
grand jury. - Correct Answer ✅ 5th Amendment
,Missouri POST Test Study Guide
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024)
Right to a speedy and public trial. Right to face accuser. Right
to have counsel. - Correct Answer ✅ 6th Amendment
Right not to have excessive bail, unjust fines, or unjust
punishment. - Correct Answer ✅ 8th Amendment
Establishes primacy of federal government over state
government. U.S. citizen first. - Correct Answer ✅ 14th
Amendment
Legislative, Executive, Judicial - Correct Answer ✅
Branches of the Government
Executive, but evidence is part of the judicial - Correct
Answer ✅ Branch of government LEO's a part of
Any evidence which is obtained illegally must be excluded
from trial. - Correct Answer ✅ Exclusionary Rule
, Missouri POST Test Study Guide
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024)
An administrative process which records pedigree information
and inventory of personal belongings is authorized. This is
not subject to Miranda. - Correct Answer ✅ Booking
process
Statute that requires a suspect in custody be released after
twenty-four hours if no warrant is issued. - Correct Answer
✅ Twenty-Four Hour Rule
Documenting a seized item's whereabouts from seizure until
introduction into court. - Correct Answer ✅ Chain of
Custody
States that the original of a piece of documentary evidence
must be entered as evidence, unless the original is lost or
destroyed through no fault of the party offering it. - Correct
Answer ✅ Best Evidence Rule
Impeachment, Independent Source, Inevitable Discovery, and
Good Faith - Correct Answer ✅ Exceptions to the
Exclusionary Rule
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