Arrest warrant - correct answer ✅✅1. Name of the state
2. Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of that state)
3. Person who will be arrested
4. Offense Committed
5. Date, time, place of occurrence
6. Name of victim
7. Description of Offense
Mapp v. Ohio - correct answer ✅✅Established the exclusionary rule was
applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
Search Warrant Exceptions - correct answer ✅✅Consent, warrant,
exigency, vehicle inventory, incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view
Chimel v. California (1969) - correct answer ✅✅search is valid of a person
and area under him immediate control form which he could produce a
weapon or destroy evidence
Carroll v. U.S. (1925) - correct answer ✅✅movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) - correct answer ✅✅can search a vehicle when
reasonable to believe will find evidence of the offense. Only in passenger
compartment.
,Sergeant Exam NFLST Questions and
Answers 2024-2025
inductive reasoning - correct answer ✅✅factual and logical explanation of
the crime
deductive reasoning - correct answer ✅✅hypothesis
neighborhood canvas - correct answer ✅✅helpful in about 20% of
investigations
vehicle canvas - correct answer ✅✅get description, location, plate of
vehicles in the area with description of anything suspicious ie blood, bullet
holes, possible evidence.
Primary v. secondary scenes - correct answer ✅✅primary is where first
criminal act occurred, secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes
occurred.
Evidence in "open view" - correct answer ✅✅processed before other
items/bodies to make sure no undue damage is done to families by media or
common talk.
3 kinds of evidence - correct answer ✅✅Corpus delicti evidence -
evidence that is needed to prove the commission of the crime
Associative - connects the suspect to the scene or victim/ or connects the
scene or victim to the suspect
Tracing - identification and location of the suspect such as a discarded ID at
the scene.
, Sergeant Exam NFLST Questions and
Answers 2024-2025
Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an area after
the boundary has been determined - correct answer ✅✅Spiral, Grid,
Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone, Pie/wheel
Digital photography (far/medium/close) - correct answer ✅✅Orientation -
far, Relationship - medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of
evidence
Class characteristics - correct answer ✅✅not completely original, like the
print of a Nike shoe
Individual characteristics - correct answer ✅✅fingerprints/footprints, etc.
Residue prints - correct answer ✅✅prints left on a hard surface from a
foot, shoe, or tire.
Impressions - correct answer ✅✅prints left in something moldable like
clay, dirt, snow, etc.
Plastic prints - correct answer ✅✅prints left in something "tacky" like silly
putty, fatty foods, caulking
Patent/contaminated/visible - correct answer ✅✅fingers contaminated
with an oily substance touch a clean surface
Latent/invisible - correct answer ✅✅unseen or hidden prints that are
developed to expose them
Forensic ondontology - correct answer ✅✅intersection of dentistry and
criminal law, i.e. bite mark analysis and identification.
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