OPOTA EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS GRADED A) LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
State the purpose of Bill of Rights - CORRECT ANSWER protect a individual's freedoms
-prevent government from interfering in protected rights
Culpable mental states - CORRECT ANSWER knowingly, purposely, recklessly, negligently
Purposely - CORRECT ANSWER Specific intention to cause a certain result; or when the
offense is a prohibition against certain conduct of a certain nature, regardless of what the
offender intends to accomplish, it is the offender's specific intention to engage in the conduct
Knowingly - CORRECT ANSWER aware that conduct is practically certain to cause a result,
regardless of purpose
recklessly - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER a government's general power to exercise authority over all
persons and things within its territory
Statutory law - CORRECT ANSWER The body of law derived from statutes rather than from
constitutions or judicial decisions.
Case Law - CORRECT ANSWER The law found in the collection of reported cases that form
all or part of the body of law within a given jurisdiction
,Force - CORRECT ANSWER Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by
any means on or against a person or thing
Deadly Force - CORRECT ANSWER force which carries a substantial risk that it will result in
thendeath of a person
Physical Harm to Persons - CORRECT ANSWER Any injury, illness or other physiological
impairment, regardless of its gravity or duration
Serious Physical Harm to Persons - CORRECT 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 harm that involves acute (i.e., severe) pain of such duration as to result in
substantial suffering or that involves any degree of prolonged or intractable pain
Physical Harm to Property - CORRECT ANSWER - Any tangible or intangible damage to
property that results in loss of value or interferes with enjoyment.
Serious Physical Harm to Property - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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. - CORRECT 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. - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT
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 - CORRECT 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
determine when a person is considered to be seized - CORRECT ANSWER -a reasonable
person would believe that the person was not free to leave
, -examples even if they did not attempt to leave:
threatening presence of officers, display of weapon, physical touching, restricting movement
explain when a officer can use the rationale from Terry to detain a person - CORRECT
ANSWER a officer may detain a individual based upon the officer's reasonable, articulable
suspicion that criminal activity was being planned or in process of being executed
describe under Terry, what is required of an officer to make a investigatory stop - CORRECT
ANSWER -have reasonable articulable suspicion to initiate a stop and that criminal activity was
afoot
-consider totality of circumstances
-weight to their experience
describe the considerations an officer should be mindful of when conducting a Terry stop -
CORRECT ANSWER -use least intrusive means of detention
-conduct stop quickly as possible to not prolong the period of involuntary detention
-if additional facts are uncovered that supply officer with probable cause to arrest, individual
may be arrested
-must be released if no grounds for arrest
requirements which must be established before a Terry pat down/frisk - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER -weapons
-during frisk, if officer grab something and immediately recognize it, they can seize it
-not seize it if determining its identity requires further manipulation (pockets, squeezing)
-once determined not a weapon, search must stop unless there's a warrant
identify the evidentiary standard on which to base an arrest - CORRECT ANSWER a arrest
must be based on probable cause