OPOTA Exam Questions And Accurate Answers
Bill of Rights - what does that accomplish? Protect individual's freedoms
-keep government off back from protected rights
Culpable mental states - what are they? Knowingly, purposely, recklessly, negligently
Purposely - With the purpose of causing a specific result; or when the crime is a
prohibition against certain conduct of a certain nature, without regard to what the
offender intends to accomplish, it is the offender's specific intent to engage in the
conduct
Knowingly - A person is aware that conduct is practically certain to cause a result,
without regard to purpose
recklessly - Answer With heedless indifference to the consequences, disregards a
substantial and unjustifiable risk that conduct is likely to cause a certain result or is
likely to be of a certain nature
Negligently - Answer Because of substantial lapse from due care, fails to perceive or
avoid a risk that his/her conduct may cause a certain result or may be of a certain
nature
Jurisdiction - The general power of a government to exercise authority over all persons
and things within its territory
Statutory law - The body of law derived from statutes rather than from constitutions or
judicial decisions.
Case Law - The law found in the collection of reported cases that form all or part of the
,body of law within a given jurisdiction
Force - Answer The use of physical power or strength applied by any means upon or
against a person or thing
Deadly Force - Answer force which carries a substantial risk that it will result in
thendeath of a person
Physical Harm to Persons - Answer Any injury, illness or other physiological impairment,
regardless of its gravity or duration
Serious Bodily Injury to Persons - Answer -Any mental illness or condition of such
gravity as would normally require hospitalization or prolonged psychiatric treatment
-Any physical harm that carries a substantial risk of death
-Any physical harm that involves some permanent incapacity, whether partial or total, or
that involves some temporary, substantial incapacity
-Any physical harm that involves some permanent disfigurement or that involves some
temporary, serious disfigurement
Any physical injury that involves acute -i.e., severe- pain such that the pain lasts for
such a duration that results in substantial suffering or that involves the occurrence of
any degree of prolonged or intractable pain
Property DamageAnswerAny physical or intangible injury to property that causes a loss
in value or impairs the enjoyment of.
Serious Physical Harm to Property - Answer - Substantial loss to the value of the
property or requires substantial time, effort, or money to repair of replace.
- Temporarily prevents the use or enjoyment of the property or interferes with the use or
enjoyment for extended periods of time.
2923.01 Conspiracy - Answer (A) No person, with purpose to commit or to promote or
facilitate the commission of aggravated murder, murder, kidnapping, abduction,
compelling prostitution, promoting prostitution, trafficking in persons, aggravated
arson, arson, aggravated robbery, robbery, aggravated burglary, burglary, trespassing
,in a habitation when a person is present or likely to be present, engaging in a pattern of
corrupt activity, corrupting another with drugs, a felony drug trafficking, manufacturing,
processing, or possession offense, theft of drugs, or illegal processing of drugs
With another person or persons, plan or aid in planning the commission of any of the
offenses
2923.02 Attempt to commit an offense. - Answer (A) No person, purposely or knowingly,
and when purpose or knowledge is sufficient culpability for the commission of an
offense, shall engage in conduct that, if successful, would constitute or result in the
offense.
2923.03 Complicity. - Answer No person, acting with the kind of culpability required for
the commission of an offense, shall do any of the following:
- Solicit or procure another to commit the offense
-Aid or abet another in committing the offense
-Cause an innocent or irresponsible person to commit the offense.
Describe the purpose of the fourth amendment to the United states constitution -
Answer is to guarantee rights relating to arrests, searches, and seizures of persons
Describe the relationship between the degrees of suspicion and the responses allowed
by the constitution - Answer Highest
Proof beyond reasonable doubt
-suspect may be convicted of crime punished
Probable cause to believe suspect is guilty
-suspect may be arrested
reasonable suspicion that suspect is involved in criminal activity
-suspect may be seized and detained for investigation
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interactions must be consensual
lowest
, discuss when a person is considered seized - Answer -a reasonable person would
believe that the person was not free to leave
-examples even if they did not try to leave:
-threatening presence of officers, display of weapon, physical touching, restricting
movement
explain under what circumstances a officer can use the rationale from Terry to stop a
person - Answer a officer may stop a person based upon the officer's reasonable,
articulable suspicion that criminal activity was being planned or in process of being
executed
describe under Terry what an officer is required to have to make an investigatory stop
-Answer -has reasonable articulable suspicion to effect a stop and that criminal activity
was afoot
-take into account totality of circumstances
-weight in their experience
describe any considerations an officer should be aware of in conducting a Terry stop
-Answer-use least intrusive means of detention
-terminate stop conduct as soon as possible so as not to extend the time of involuntary
detention
-if new information learned during the course of the stop provides the officer with
probable cause to arrest the subject, he may be arrested
-must be released if no probable cause to arrest exists
requirements which must be established before a Terry pat down/frisk - Answer Officers
are required to articulate a reasonable belief that the suspect is armed AND the suspect
poses a threat to them
Plain Feel Doctrine - Answer -weapons
-during frisk, if officer grab something and immediately recognize it, they can seize it