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  • 1. Systematic process of collecting facts to identify guilty parties:
A) Criminal Investigation
B) Criminal Investigation
C) Forensics
D) Criminal Intelligence
E) Interrogation
  • 2. Person legally tasked to gather evidence and establish truth:
A) Judge
B) Investigator
C) Prosecutor
D) Investigator
E) Witness
  • 3. Any means legally presented to prove or disprove a fact in court:
A) Exhibit
B) Fact
C) Information
D) Evidence
E) Evidence
  • 4. Something actual, real, and verifiable, not an opinion:
A) Truth
B) Conclusion
C) Fact
D) Assumption
E) Fact
  • 5. Reasonable ground for belief that a crime has been committed:
A) Probable Cause
B) Probable Cause
C) Suspicion
D) Presumption
E) Proof Beyond Doubt
  • 6. Defense that accused was somewhere else when crime happened:
A) Alibi
B) Alibi
C) Denial
D) Self-Defense
E) Justification
  • 7. Reason or cause that drives a person to commit a crime:
A) Motive
B) Motive
C) Opportunity
D) Plan
E) Intent
  • 8. Determination to do an act; purpose to achieve a specific result:
A) Intent
B) Design
C) Scheme
D) Motive
E) Intent
  • 9. Distinct method or pattern used by an offender:
A) Strategy
B) Modus Operandi
C) Modus Operandi
D) Scheme
E) Technique
  • 10. Exact place where crime was committed and surroundings:
A) Hideout
B) Jurisdiction
C) Venue
D) Crime Scene
E) Crime Scene
  • 11. Unbroken record of who handled evidence, when, and why:
A) Chain of Custody
B) Investigation Report
C) Case Folder
D) Chain of Custody
E) Evidence Log
  • 12. Written court order authorizing search of specific place:
A) Search Warrant
B) Court Order
C) Search Warrant
D) Subpoena
E) Warrant of Arrest
  • 13. Taking a person into custody to answer for an offense:
A) Arrest
B) Arrest
C) Interrogation
D) Detention
E) Restraint
  • 14. Written court order directing arrest of a named person:
A) Search Warrant
B) Summons
C) Warrant of Arrest
D) Warrant of Arrest
E) Information
  • 15. Preliminary inquiry to determine ground to hold accused for trial
A) Inquest
B) Preliminary Investigation
C) Hearing
D) Trial
E) Inquest
  • 16. Formal written accusation filed by prosecutor:
A) Information
B) Affidavit
C) Pleading
D) Information
E) Complaint
  • 17. Sworn written accusation charging a person with an offense:
A) Petition
B) Complaint
C) Information
D) Motion
E) Complaint
  • 18. Person believed to have committed crime but not yet charged:
A) Suspect
B) Defendant
C) Accused
D) Respondent
E) Suspect
  • 19. Person formally charged in court with a crime:
A) Respondent
B) Accused
C) Suspect
D) Accused
E) Witness
  • 20. Person who can testify to what they know or saw:
A) Informant
B) Witness
C) Investigator
D) Victim
E) Witness
  • 21. Person harmed, injured, or killed as result of an offense:
A) Victim
B) Accuser
C) Witness
D) Complainant
E) Victim
  • 22. Voluntary statement admitting full guilt:
A) Declaration
B) Confession
C) Confession
D) Admission
E) Testimony
  • 23. Statement acknowledging relevant fact but not full guilt:
A) Admission
B) Alibi
C) Denial
D) Confession
E) Admission
  • 24. Questioning a suspect to obtain confession:
A) Debriefing
B) Interrogation
C) Inquiry
D) Interview
E) Interrogation
  • 25. Questioning a witness or person with knowledge:
A) Examination
B) Cross-Examination
C) Interview
D) Interrogation
E) Interview
  • 26. Application of scientific methods to legal matters:
A) Ballistics
B) Toxicology
C) Forensics
D) Autopsy
E) Forensics
  • 27. Impressions of friction ridges on fingers for identification:
A) Fingerprints
B) Palm Prints
C) Footprints
D) Fingerprints
E) DNA
  • 28. Scientific study of projectiles, firearms, and ammunition:
A) Ballistics
B) Explosives
C) Ballistics
D) Trajectory
E) Weapons Tech
  • 29. Medical exam of dead body to determine cause of death:
A) Clinical Exam
B) Biopsy
C) Autopsy
D) Autopsy
E) Post-Mortem
  • 30. Examination made after death:
A) Forensic
B) Clinical
C) Post-Mortem
D) Post-Mortem
E) Antemortem
  • 31. Conditions or injuries existing before death:
A) Antemortem
B) Pathological
C) Antemortem
D) Post-Mortem
E) Perimortem
  • 32. Injury or disease that directly results in death:
A) Manner of Death
B) Proximate Cause
C) Cause of Death
D) Cause of Death
E) Mechanism of Death
  • 33. Classification: natural, accidental, suicidal, homicidal:
A) Manner of Death
B) Circumstance of Death
C) Mode of Death
D) Manner of Death
E) Cause of Death
  • 34. Killing of one person by another:
A) Murder
B) Parricide
C) Homicide
D) Homicide
E) Infanticide
  • 35. Unlawful killing with qualifying circumstances:
A) Fratricide
B) Parricide
C) Homicide
D) Murder
E) Murder
  • 36. Killing of one’s parent, child, spouse, or direct relative:
A) Infanticide
B) Murder
C) Parricide
D) Parricide
E) Homicide
  • 37. Killing of child less than three days old:
A) Abortion
B) Infanticide
C) Murder
D) Infanticide
E) Parricide
  • 38. Offender performs all acts but crime does not happen:
A) Preparatory
B) Frustrated
C) Attempted
D) Consummated
E) Frustrated
  • 39. Offender begins crime but does not finish due to external cause:
A) Attempted
B) Frustrated
C) Attempted
D) Consummated
E) Conspiracy
  • 40. All elements necessary for execution are present:
A) Attempted
B) Planned
C) Frustrated
D) Consummated
E) Consummated
  • 41. Act or omission punishable by law:
A) Misdemeanor
B) Violation
C) Offense
D) Felony
E) Felony
  • 42. Offense less serious than felony with lighter penalty
A) Infraction
B) Misdemeanor
C) Misdemeanor
D) Felony
E) Crime
  • 43. Person who directly commits, induces, or cooperates in crime:
A) Conspirator
B) Principal
C) Accomplice
D) Accessory
E) Principal
  • 44. Person who cooperates but not as principal:
A) Accomplice
B) Principal
C) Accomplice
D) Instigator
E) Accessory
  • 45. Person who assists after crime — concealment, profiting:
A) Accessory
B) Accomplice
C) Principal
D) Accessory
E) Conspirator
  • 46. Agreement between two or more to commit felony:
A) Plan
B) Design
C) Proposal
D) Conspiracy
E) Conspiracy
  • 47. Devised means to catch criminal while committing crime:
A) Operation
B) Instigation
C) Entrapment
D) Raid
E) Entrapment
  • 48. Officer induces innocent person to commit crime:
A) Deception
B) Entrapment
C) Set-up
D) Instigation
E) Instigation
  • 49. Responsibility for acts punishable by law:
A) Moral Liability
B) Administrative Liability
C) Criminal Liability
D) Civil Liability
E) Criminal Liability
  • 50. Obligation to pay for damages caused by crime:
A) Penal Liability
B) Criminal Liability
C) Liability
D) Liability
E) Civil Liability
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