Exam 5 - NVCJTA Session 148 - Section B Questions and
Answers.
What direction should you orient your sketches? - Correct Answer Orientate north
What do mid range photos allow you to see? - Correct Answer Mid range shows
relationship between items at a scene
What type of evidence is a physical item? - Correct Answer Physical evidence
How is a grid search performed? - Correct Answer Start in one corner and walk in a straight
line along the edge of the search area. Once you reach the other side of the search area
advance in slightly then walk back across in the opposite direction. Repeat until you are in
the opposite corner you started in then repeat the entire process along the opposite axis
until you are back in the corner you started in. (SEE THE PHOTO IF YOU DON'T
UNDERSTAND)
What are the different types of crime scene photos? - Correct Answer Overall, mid range
and close up
Can you take fingerprints from a coffee cup? - Correct Answer Yes!
Can you take fingerprints from a soda can? - Correct Answer Yes!
What is chain of custody? - Correct Answer Documenting whose hands evidence has been
in
If someone breaks into a house and busts a window, what should you look for? - Correct
Answer Look for glass, fingerprints
What is oblique lighting? - Correct Answer It is light at a low angle - used for looking at
prints on glass
§18.2-323: Drinking while operating a motor vehicle - Correct Answer Unlawful for any
person to consume an alcoholic beverage while driving a vehicle upon a public highway
,§4.1-304: Persons to whom alcoholic beverages may not be sold - Correct Answer No
person shall sell_any alcoholic beverages to any person when at the time of such sale, he
has reason to believe that the person to whom the sale is made is:
- Less than 21 years of age
- Interdicted
- Intoxicated.
Punishment: Class 1 misdemeanor
§4.1-305: Purchase or possession of alcohol by prohibited persons - TYPE 1 - Correct
Answer No person to whom an alcoholic beverage may not be lawfully sold (a person who
is under 21, interdicted, or intoxicated) shall consume, purchase, possess, attempt to
consume, purchase or possess an alcoholic beverage
Prosecution may occur either where the alcohol was consumed or where the person
exhibited evidence of prior consumption.
§4.1-305: Purchase or possession of alcohol by prohibited persons - TYPE 2 - Correct
Answer No person under age 21 shall use or attempt to use any altered, fictitious, facsimile
or simulated ID to purchase or attempt to purchase alcohol
§18.2-77: Elements of Arson -- Dwelling - Correct Answer Maliciously burns (in whole or in
part) or by use of any explosive device or substance maliciously destroys (in whole or in
part), or aids, counsels, or procures the burning or destruction of a dwelling house, or
manufactured home, whether property of himself or another, OR any occupied hotel,
hospital, mental health facility, or other house in which persons usually dwell or lodge; any
occupied railroad car, boat, vessel, or river craft in which persons usually dwell or lodge;
any occupied jail or prison; or any occupied church
§18.2-79: Burning or destroying a meeting house - Correct Answer Any person who
maliciously burns, in whole or in part, or by the use of explosive device destroys, in whole
or part, or aids, counsels, or procures the burning or destroying of any meeting house,
courthouse, townhouse, college, schoolhouse, or other building for public use or banking
house, storehouse, warehouse, etc. whether the property of himself or another,
§18.2-80: Burning or destroying any building or other structure - Correct Answer Any
person who maliciously, or with an intent to defraud an insurance company or other
person, burns or destroys by explosive device or substance, in whole or in part, or aids,
, counsels, or procures the same, any bridge, lock, dam, or other structure (covers any
building not covered in other sections)
Shall be guilty of a class 3 felony if a person is therein or thereon the structure at the time
Eg. If someone sets a bridge on fire and homeless people live under it
§18.2-82: Burning a building or structure while in such building to commit a felony - Correct
Answer Any person who, while unlawfully in a building or structure,
with the intent to commit a felony in such building or structure,
burns or causes to be burned, in whole or in part,
the building or other structure which is not punishable under any other section
Shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony
Examples:
• A bumbling burglar knocks over a lamp by accident. The lamp rests on a curtain and later
burns it.
• A burglar uses a torch to cut into a safe, and he accidentally sets fire to the building
Student example: Robbing a house while smoking and the cig starts a fire
§18.2-81: Burning or destroying personal property - Correct Answer Any person who
maliciously, or with an intent to defraud an insurance company or other person, sets fire to,
or burns, or destroys by explosive device or substance, or aids, counsels, or procures the
same, any personal property, standing grain, or other crop
§18.2-88: Carelessly setting fire causing damage or jeopardy to property of another -
Correct Answer Any person who carelessly, negligently, or intentionally
sets on fire any woods, marshes, stubble, brush, straw, or any other substance capable of
spreading fires on lands whereby the property of another is damaged or jeopardized
Shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor (also liable for costs of fighting the fire)
Lesser included offense of §18.2-87. Not necessary that the fire escape, only that it
jeopardized the other person's land
