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TLETA week 1 Exam Questions and Correct Answers
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TLETA week 1Ethics - Answer -Caught not taught
What does Modern day policing come from? - Answer -English Law
What is the Court Structure? - Answer -Supreme Court, Court of criminal appeals, appeals court, Circuit
court or Criminal court, municipal and general sessions
What is the Legal Hierarchy? - Answer -Federal Laws, State laws, Local laws
What are the steps to State court? - Answer -Arrest, general sessions, grand jury, trial, appeal
3 Checks of Probable cause/Arrest - Answer -Initial appearance/preliminary hearing, general sessions,
grand jury
Levels of Proof - Answer -Mere suspicion, reasonable suspicion, P/C, beyond a reasonable doubt
What is a magistrate? - Answer -An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person
charged with a public offense
Who are considered magistrates? - Answer -Judicial commissioners, judges of circuit & Criminal courts,
Supreme Court, general sessions judges, city judges or juvenile judges
,what is mittimus? - Answer -Order in writing
What does Examination required before commitment mean? - Answer -No one person can be
committed to prison on any criminal matter without first being examined by a magistrate
Affidavit - Answer -Written statement signed and sworn to before an official (after arrest)
Warrant - Answer -Written order commanding that a person be arrested, must be signed by magistrate
(before arrest)
8th Amendment - Answer -No cruel or unusual punishment. All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient
sureties except for capital offenses
Who endorses bail amount? - Answer -Magistrate
How many people are on a grand jury? - Answer -13 people. 12 jurors, 1 foreperson appointed by judge
Who discharges bail - Answer -Sheriff
preliminary hearing - Answer -Not a constitutional right; is a probable cause screening
What does a grand jury do? - Answer -Inquire into law violations; Determine existence of Probable
Cause
Indictment - Answer -An accusation in writing presented by the grand jury of the county, charging a
person
Indictable offenses - Answer -ALL felonies and misdemeanors
True Bill - Answer -grand jury approves indictment
, Capias - Answer -Written Document from grand jury authorizing arrest
Arraignment - Answer -Where defendant first appears before court with jurisdiction to try case
Class A Felony - Answer -15- 60 Years; $50,000
Class B Felony - Answer -8-30 years; $25,000
Class C Felony - Answer -3-15 years; $10,000
Class D Felony - Answer -2- 12 years; $5,000
Class E felony - Answer -1-6 years; $3,000
Class A misdemeanor - Answer -11 months, 29 days, $2,500
Class B Misdemeanor - Answer -6 months, $500
Class C Misdemeanor - Answer -30 days, $50
2nd Amendment - Answer -Right to bear arms
4th Amendment - Answer -Protection against Unreasonable Search and Seizure (protection of houses,
papers, persons, effects and life)
5th Amendment - Answer -The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due process, testify
against self
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