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NC BLET FINAL STUDY GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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NC BLET FINAL STUDY GUIDE EXAMQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
People have a reasonable expectation of privacy for their home and the ____ of the
house, or the area immediately surrounding the house. - Answer-curtilage
When officers arrest a person in his home, they may perform a "____ sweep" of the
premises. Such a sweep is limited to areas from which an attack could be launched. -
Answer-protective
Once this initial sweep for perpetrators and victims is complete, and any imminent risk
to evidence controlled, absent valid consent or truly exigent circumstances, an officer
should ____ a search warrant before searching further. - Answer-obtain
A suspect is in "____" for Miranda purposes when he has been formally arrested or
when his freedom of movement has been restrained to the extent associated with a
formal arrest. - Answer-custody
Whether he is in or out of custody, the defendant has a Sixth Amendment right on the
charges for which he has ____ before a magistrate, been indicted, or appeared in
District Court. - Answer-appeared
Law enforcement officers are expected to endure more significant verbal abuse than the
____ citizen. - Answer-ordinary
Officers need no justification to ____ a citizen. - Answer-approach
An officer may arrest without a warrant any person who the officer has probable cause
to believe has committed a? - Answer-Felony
When a law enforcement officer arrests an adult who is supervising minor children who
are present at the time of the arrest, the minor children must be placed with a ____
adult approved by the parent or guardian of the minor children. - Answer-responsible
The presence of "no trespassing" signs will not affect the ____ of evidence seized from
an open field in plain view. - Answer-admissibility
Officers have no right to search incident to a ____, although a person may be asked to
consent to such a search. - Answer-citation
An ____ search warrant is a warrant that is issued before all of the facts or events
taking place that create the probable cause to search. Essentially, the officers are telling
the court what is going to happen in the future and are asking for permission to search
once the future events take place. - Answer-anticipatory
,____ law is judge-made law. - Answer-Common
A ____ interrogation does not require Miranda warnings and a waiver. - Answer-non-
custodial
In a famous case which informally known as the "Christian burial speech" case officers
improperly engaged in the functional equivalent of questioning by telling the defendant,
a profoundly religious former mental patient who had invoked his Sixth Amendment right
to counsel, that he should lead the officers to the body of the child he had murdered on
Christmas Eve so that the parents could give the child a Christian burial. This was a
violation of the defendant's rights due to, ____ to obtain a valid waiver of the Sixth
Amendment right to counsel, which attached to the charge about which the officers
were eliciting information. - Answer-failure
The first ____ amendments to the Constitution are called the "Bill of Rights." - Answer-
ten (10)
The lineup shall be composed so that the fillers generally ____ the eyewitness's
description of the perpetrator, while ensuring that the suspect does not unduly stand out
from the fillers. - Answer-resemble
City police officers - may arrest in the city in which they serve, in the area within one (1)
____ of the city limits, and on city property outside the city. - Answer-mile
North Carolina law allows a private citizen to assist law enforcement officers in making
arrests and preventing escapes from arrest when ____ by a law enforcement officer. -
Answer-requested
Although the term "exigent circumstances" is not easily described, it generally means
that officers need to act? - Answer-Immediately
The sooner the officer shoots, the more difficult it is to ____ the use of deadly force. -
Answer-justify
If officers have probable cause to search a vehicle for evidence, and the car is in a ____
place, the officers may seize and search the car without a search warrant. - Answer-
public
During execution of the search warrant in a public place, officers may ____ anyone on
the premises. - Answer-detain
The Fifth Amendment provides that: "No person . . . shall be ____ in any criminal case
to be a witness against himself - Answer-compelled
, The Shatzer rule would apply where, for example, the defendant requested his Miranda
right to counsel in his first period of custodial interrogation; he is then released from
custody for at least ____ days. - Answer-14
____, which are utterances calculated to intimidate, provide no social benefit. - Answer-
Threats
The ____ Amendment states that Congress shall not infringe on the right of the people
to keep and bear arms. - Answer-Second
The purpose of the ____ stop is to determine whether there is probable cause. -
Answer-investigative
Legal standard for investigative stops is? - Answer-Reasonable suspicion
Upon making an arrest, a law enforcement officer must ____ himself as a law
enforcement officer. - Answer-identify
A criminal ____ charges a crime and orders the accused to appear in court on a
designated time and date to answer the charges against him. - Answer-summons
____ law defines the rights and duties of citizens. - Answer-Substantive
The overriding test for all use of force, whether deadly or not, is whether the use of force
was objectively reasonable under the ____ and at the time the force was used. -
Answer-circumstances
The use of deadly force is much more restrictive, as shown by subdivision (2) of G.S.
15A-401(d). The authority to use deadly force depends on the nature of the
circumstances the officer faces at the time such force must be used. The use of deadly
force must be "____" under the circumstances. - Answer-reasonably necessary
____ law specifies the method whereby substantive law is enforced. - Answer-
Procedural
The abandoned property is the property in which a person has intentionally ____ any
interest. - Answer-relinquished
What is knowingly exposed to public sight, hearing, or smell lacks ____ protection. -
Answer-constitutional
Once a suspect has been validly stopped, such as an investigative stop, an officer may
____ a person when he has an articulable reasonable suspicion the person may be
armed and dangerous, but the officer does not have probable cause to arrest or search
the person. - Answer-frisk
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