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Name that Charge
Can they do that?
Can we talk?
100

When an officer makes a casual and brief inquiry of a citizen that involves neither an arrest nor a stop.

Consensual Encounter

100
This is deployed to detect the odor of narcotics in a vehicle.
Specially trained narcotics detecting K-9.
100

Driving too fast or too slow, passing on a slope or curve, passing a school bus.

Reckless Driving

IC 9-21-8-52

Class C Misdemeanor

100

Traffic stop based upon the failure to execute a turn after turning on your turn signal.

Nope.

100

Recitation of Constitutional Rights prior to search

Pritle Rights Advisement

200

A brief detention of an individual for investigatory purposes based upon specific articulable facts where officer has reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is about to occur.

Terry Stop

200

Officer specially trained to determine the presence of controlled substances in an individual. 

Drug Recognition Expert

200

Operating a Vehicle after license administratively suspended by the BMV for five or ten years

Operating a Vehicle as a Habitual Traffic Violator

IC 9-30-10-16

Level 6 Felony

200

Officer commands passenger to exit a vehicle during a traffic stop.

Yes.

200

Recitation of Constitutional Rights prior to custodial interrogation.

Miranda Rights advisement

300

A detention that lasts for more than a short period of time, and based upon probable cause.

Arrest

300

Series of exercises performed by the operator of a vehicle to determine if any impairment of the operator is present. 

Standardized Field Sobriety Tests

300

A person who rides, drives, or walks along the right-of-way or yard of a railroad company other than at a public crossing.

Unauthorized Use of a Railroad Right-of Way

IC 8-3-15-3

Class B Misdemeanor

300

Operate a vehicle in reverse without a seatbelt fastened?

Yes. [where permitted]

9-19-10-2. Use of safety belts required.

Each occupant of a motor vehicl[portion omittted] ;shall have a safety belt properly fastened about the occupant’s body at all times when the vehicle is in forward motion.


300

Advisement of Indiana Law pertaining to consequences for refusal to submit to chemical testing

Indiana Implied Consent

400

Facts known to the officer and inferences therefrom that would lead an ordinary prudent person to believe that criminal activity has or is about to occur.

Reasonable Suspicion

400
True or False? An officer is required to show a driver the reading on the radar device to establish speeding.

False.

400

Suspect failing to stop for an officer initiating a traffic stop on their vehicle.

Resisting Law Enforcement [in a Vehicle]

IC 35-44.1-3-1

Level 6 Felony

400

Can the operator of a vehicle use a telecommunications device while the vehicle is stopped at a stop light?

Yes. 

IC 9-21-8-59

Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), a person may not hold or use a telecommunications device while operating a moving motor vehicle.

400

Term referring to the discussion between juvenile and parent or guardian before consent to a blood draw.

Meaningful Consultation

500

Facts and circumstances based upon reasonably trustworthy information that are sufficient to warrant a reasonable belief that a crime has been committed.

Probable Cause

500

Name the 3 most common SFST's

Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus [HGN]

One-Leg-Stand

Walk-and-Turn

500

Driver involved in a crash does not provide license or insurance information, and exits the crash site.

Failure to Stop after Accident

IC 9-26-1-1.1

Class B Misdemeanor - Level 3 Felony

500

Officer stops a vehicle where the registered owner of the vehicle is suspended.

Yep. 

As long as there isn't clear indication that the operator of the vehicle is not the registered owner.

500

Passenger in a vehicle refuses to identify themself. Is this a crime? 

No.

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