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A comprehensive set of questions and verified answers for the cleet phase 3 exam, covering key legal concepts and procedures relevant to law enforcement. Designed to help students prepare for the exam by providing a structured format for reviewing important topics and understanding the correct answers. It includes questions on constitutional law, criminal law, evidence, and investigative techniques, offering valuable insights into the legal framework and practical applications in law enforcement.
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Preprinted, Narrative or Combination Reports
Answer: These are not actually reports but are forms that you can use to prepare your reports.
Constitutional Law
Answer: Regulates the conduct of government and state actions, and is expressed through federal laws, based on interpretaton of the Constitution.
Contract Law
Answer: Established liabilities between the participants in a contract, including the responsibilities of each party and a remedy in case of breach of contract (when the contract is not fulfilled).
Regulatory Law
Answer: Acts as a binding limitation, and includes state and federal statues, rules and regulations, and municipal (city) ordinances.
Criminal Law
Answer: Defines a "social harm" to which offenders are answerable to society and punishable by law. Acts as a deterrent to criminal activity through the threat of conviction and the levying of a penalty.
Deadly Force
Answer: Force likely or intended to cause death or great bodily harm, an d hich may be reasonable or unreasonable.
Probable Cause
Answer: Articulable facts which would lead a reasonable and prudent person to believe that a crime has been committed.
Burglary (First Degree)
Answer: "Every person who breaks into and enters the dwelling house of another, in which there is at the time some human being, with intent to commit some crime therein, either: 1) By forcibly bursting or breaking the wall, or an outer door, window, or shutter of a window of such house or the lock or bolts of such door, or the fastening of such window or shutter; or 2) By breaking in in any other manner, being armed with a dangerous weapon or being assisted or aided by one or
more confederates then actually present; or 3) By unlocking an out door by means of false keys or by picking the lock thereof, or by lifting a latch or opening a window" (Title 21 O.S. 1431)
Burglary (Second Degree)
Answer: "Every person who breaks and enters any building or any part of any building, room, booth , rent, railroad car, automobile, truck, trailer, vessel or other structure or erection, in which any property is kept, or breaks into or forcibly opens, any coin-operated or vending machine or device with intent to steal any property therin or to commit any felony" (Title 21 O.S. 1435).
Embezzlement
Answer: "fraudulent appropriation of property of any person or legal entity, legally obtained, to any use or purpose not inteded or authorized by its owner, or the secretion of the property with the fraudulent intent to appropriate it to such use or purpose" (Title 21 O.S. 1451)
Fraud
Answer: "any kind of artifice employed by one person to decieve another." (From Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition.)
Robbery
Answer:
"a wrongful taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear." (Title 21 O.S.
Robbery (First Degree)
Answer: In the course of committing the robbery, the defendant: (Section 797) 1) Inflicts serious bodily injury upon the person; 2) threatens a person with immediate serious bodily injury; intentionally puts a person in fear of immediate serious bodily injury; or 3) commits or threatens to commit a felony upon the person.
Robbery (Second Degree)
Answer: "when accomplished in any other manner [other than as stated for First Degree]" (Section 797)
Wiretapping
Answer: common term which refers to intercepting, in real time, the contents of a wire, oral, or electronic communication.
Consumer
Answer: An individual.
Consumer reporting agency
Answer: Any compnay that, for a fee, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly assembles or evaluates employment or other information covered by the Act on a subject in order to provide consumer reports to third parties.
Investigative consumer report
Answer: A consumer report containing information about the subject's character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living obtained through personal interviews with friends, neighbors, or associates.
Chain of evidence/custody
Answer: the number of people who handle an item of evidence from the time the evidence is collected to the time that evidence is used to close a case
Forensics
Answer: applying scientific procedures to determine legal evidence
In-hous investigation
Answer: working within an organization, often under another identity or pretext, to collect information
Pretext
Answer: the justification of in-house investigation activities
Indirect evidence
Answer: evidence that does not directly prove a fact, but that allows a logical inference to be made (allows a conclusion to be drawn); also called circumstantial evidence
Direct evidence
Answer: evidence that proves a fact without requiring an inference
Material
Answer: having some worth or weight
Relevant
Answer: having any tendency to amke the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence
Competent
Answer: from a proper source, such as personal knowledge or a valid expert opinion
Coordinate method
Answer: measuring the distance of objects from fixed points such as walls and windows
Triangulation method
Answer: This method is designed to measure to an item from two fixed points by forming a triangle. This method allows the specialist to measure all items of evidence from the first fixed reference point then move to the second fixed reference point to complete the measurements.
Cross-projections method
Answer:
showing all of the items in a scene as one-dimensional or flat; often used when most evidence is indoors
Surveillance Reports
Answer: A report that presents detailed information about the results of your surveillance activities. The data in this report is exact, allowing you to account for every minute and every activity during your assignment. This report does not leave any aspect of your surveillance open to interpretation.
Background Investigations Report
Answer: A report that presents the relevant informaton concerning the character and reputation of the subject of your investigation, frequently used to determine the suitability of an applicant for employment.
Consumer and Investigative Consumer Reports
Answer: Reports that describe a subject's credit worthiness, credit standing or capacity, character, general repuation, personal characteristics, or mode of living. These reports are used as a factor in establishing the subject's eligibility for employment, insurance, credit, or for other purposes, and in the case of the investigative consumer report, may also include information derived through personal interviews with friends, neighbors, or associates of the subject.
Time and Expense Reports
Answer: These reports provide a record of the necessary expenses involved in your investigation, and help your client account for the costs of your services.
Case Reports
Answer: A report that records your daily activities on any case, and that includes elements of the other types of reports. This report is a log of your work on an investigation as it progresses each day.