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2.1-List the general elements of a crime. ✔✔-A prohibited act ("actus reus") and...
- A specific mental intent ("mens rea") that ...
- Occur at the same time ("concurrence") and...
- Bring about a particular result made unlawful by the statute ("causation) 2.1-Define the culpable mental states "purposely," "knowingly," "recklessly," and "negligently." ✔✔-Purposely - A person acts purposely when it is the person's specific intention to cause a certain result, or , when the gist of the offense is a prohibition against conduct of a certain nature, regardless of what the offender intends to accomplish thereby, it is the offender's specific intention to engage in conduct of that nature.
- Knowingly - A person acts knowingly, regardless of purpose, when the person is aware that the person's conduct will probably cause a certain result or will probably be of a certain nature
- Recklessly - A person acts recklessly when, with heedless indifference to the consequences , the person disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the person's conduct is likely to cause a certain result or is likely to cause a certain result or is likely to be a certain nature
- Negligently - A person acts negligently when, because of a substantial lapse from due care, the person fails to perceive or avoid a risk that the person's conduct may cause result or may be of a certain nature
OPOTA UNIT 2: LEGAL [LATEST UPDATE 2025 ] WITH VERIFIED
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2.1-Identify the R.C. 2923.02 offense of Attempt to Commit an Offense according to it's elements. ✔✔It is a crime to....
- Purposely or knowingly, when such purpose or knowledge is sufficient culpability for the commission of an offense, to ...
- Engage in conduct that, if successful, would constitute or result in the offense 2.2A-Identify the R.C. Chapter 2903 offense in the example according to the elements of that offense. ✔✔-Aggravated Murder
- Murder
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- Reckless Homicide
- Negligent Homicide
- Aggravated Vehicular Homicide, Vehicular Homicide, Vehicular Manslaughter
- Aggravated Vehicular Assault; Vehicular Assault
- Felonious Assault
- Aggravated Assault
- Assault
Reckless Homicide ✔✔No person shall recklessly cause the death of another or the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy. Negligent Homicide ✔✔No person shall negligently cause the death of another or the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance Aggravated vehicular homicide - vehicular homicide - vehicular manslaughter ✔✔No person, while operating or participating in the operation of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, snowmobile, locomotive, watercraft, or aircraft, shall cause the death of another or the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy in any of the following ways Aggravated vehicular assault; vehicular assault ✔✔No person, while operating or participating in the operation of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, snowmobile, locomotive, watercraft, or aircraft, shall cause serious physical harm to another person or another's unborn Felonious Assault ✔✔No person shall knowingly do either of the following: (1) Cause serious physical harm to another or to another's unborn; (2) Cause or attempt to cause physical harm to another or to another's unborn by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance.
Aggravated Assault ✔✔No person, while under the influence of sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage, either of which is brought on by serious provocation occasioned by the victim that is reasonably sufficient to incite the person into using deadly force, shall knowingly: (1) Cause serious physical harm to another or to another's unborn; Assault ✔✔No person shall knowingly cause or attempt to cause physical harm to another or to another's unborn Negligent Assault ✔✔No person shall negligently, by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance as defined in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code, cause physical harm to another or to another's unborn Aggravated Menacing ✔✔No person shall knowingly cause another to believe that the offender will cause serious physical harm to the person or property of the other person, the other person's unborn, or a member of the other person's immediate family Menacing by Stalking ✔✔No person by engaging in a pattern of conduct shall knowingly cause another person to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to the other person or a
(3) To terrorize, or to inflict serious physical harm on the victim or another; (4) To engage in sexual activity, as defined in section 2907.01 of the Revised Code, with the victim against the victim's will; (5) To hinder, impede, or obstruct a function of government, or to force any action or concession on the part of governmental authority Abduction ✔✔No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) By force or threat, remove another from the place where the other person is found; (2) By force or threat, restrain the liberty of another person under circumstances that create a risk of physical harm to the victim or place the other person in fear; (3) Hold another in a condition of involuntary servitude. (B) No person, with a sexual motivation, shall violate division (A) of this section. Unlawful Restraint ✔✔No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly restrain another of the other person's liberty. (B) No person, without privilege to do so and with a sexual motivation, shall knowingly restrain another of the other person's liberty.
Criminal Child Enticement ✔✔No person, by any means and without privilege to do so, shall knowingly solicit, coax, entice, or lure any child under fourteen years of age to accompany the person in any manner, including entering into any vehicle or onto any vessel, whether or not the offender knows the age of the child Trafficking in Person ✔✔No person shall knowingly recruit, lure, entice, isolate, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, or knowingly attempt to recruit, lure, entice, isolate, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, another person 2.2A-Define the term sexual misconduct ✔✔Vaginal intercourse between a male and female; anal intercourse, fellatio, and cunnilings between persons regardless of sex; and without privilege to do so, the insertion, however slight, of any part of the body or any instrument, apparatus, or other object into the vaginal or anal opening of another 2.2A-Define the term sexual contact. ✔✔-For the purpose of sexually arousing or gratifying either persons, any touching of an erogenous zone of another, including without limitation the
- Thigh
- Genitals
- Buttox
- Pubic region
(a) For the purpose of preventing resistance, the offender substantially impairs the other person's judgment or control by administering any drug, intoxicant, or controlled substance to the other person surreptitiously or by force, threat of force, or deception. (b) The other person is less than thirteen years of age, whether or not the offender knows the age of the other person. Sexual Battery ✔✔No person shall engage in sexual conduct with another, not the spouse of the offender, when any of the following apply: (1) The offender knowingly coerces the other person to submit by any means that would prevent resistance by a person of ordinary resolution. (2) The offender knows that the other person's ability to appraise the nature of or control the other person's own conduct is substantially impaired. (3) The offender knows that the other person submits because the other person is unaware that the act is being committed. (4) The offender knows that the other person submits because the other person mistakenly identifies the offender as the other person's spouse. (5) The offender is the other person's natural or adoptive parent, or a stepparent, or guardian, custodian, or person in loco parentis of the other person. (6) The other person is in custody of law or a patient in a hospital or other institution, and the offender has supervisory or disciplinary authority over the other person.
Unlawful Sexual Conduct with a Minor ✔✔No person who is eighteen years of age or older shall engage in sexual conduct with another, who is not the spouse of the offender, when the offender knows the other person is thirteen years of age or older but less than sixteen years of age, or the offender is reckless in that regard. Gross Sexual Imposition ✔✔No person shall have sexual contact with another, not the spouse of the offender; cause another, not the spouse of the offender, to have sexual contact with the offender; or cause two or more other persons to have sexual contact when any of the following applies: (1) The offender purposely compels the other person, or one of the other persons, to submit by force or threat of force. The other person, or one of the other persons, is less than thirteen years of age, whether or not the offender knows the age of that person Sexual Imposition ✔✔No person shall have sexual contact with another, not the spouse of the offender; cause another, not the spouse of the offender, to have sexual contact with the offender; or cause two or more other persons to have sexual contact when any of the following applies: (1) The offender knows that the sexual contact is offensive to the other person, or one of the other persons, or is reckless in that regard.
- Contributing to Unruliness or Delinquency of a Child Endangering Children ✔✔No person, who is the parent, guardian, custodian, person having custody or control, or person in loco parentis of a child under eighteen years of age or a mentally or physically handicapped child under twenty-one years of age, shall create a substantial risk to the health or safety of the child, by violating a duty of care, protection, or support. Interference with Custody ✔✔No person, knowing the person is without privilege to do so or being reckless in that regard, shall entice, take, keep, or harbor a person identified in division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section from the parent, guardian, or custodian of the person identified in division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section: (1) A child under the age of eighteen, or a mentally or physically handicapped child under the age of twenty-one; Contributing to Unruliness or Delinquency of a child ✔✔No person, including a parent, guardian, or other custodian of a child, shall do any of the following: (1) Aid, abet, induce, cause, encourage, or contribute to a child or award of the juvenile court becoming an unruly child or a delinquent child ; (2) Act in a way tending to cause a child or a ward of the juvenile court to become an unruly child or a delinquent child
2.2A-.Identify objective evidence of a crime being motivated by hate or bias. ✔✔The offender and the victim were of a different race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, and/or gender identity Bias-related oral comments, written statements, or gestures were made by the offender indicating his or her bias. The presence of visible symbols of hatred and/or bias The victim is a member of a specific group that is overwhelmingly outnumbered by other residents in the neighborhood where the victim lives and the incident took place. The victim was visiting a neighborhood where previous hate crimes had been committed and where tensions remained high against the victims group. 2.2A-Identify the R.C. Chapter 2927 offense in the example according to the elements of that offense. ✔✔Ethnic Intimidation Ethnic Intimidation ✔✔No person shall violate section 2903.21, 2903.22, 2909.06, or 2909.07, or division (A)(3), (4), or (5) of section 2917.21 of the Revised Code by reason of the race, color, religion, or national origin of another person or group of persons. 2.2E.Recongnize All Elements of the Select R.C. Chapter 2913 Offense. ✔✔-Theft
owner or person authorized to give consent, and either remove it from this state or keep possession of it for more than forty-eight hours. Unauthorized Use of Property- computer, cable , or telecommunication property ✔✔No person shall knowingly use or operate the property of another without the consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent Passing Bad Checks ✔✔No person, with purpose to defraud, shall issue or transfer or cause to be issued or transferred a check or other negotiable instrument, knowing that it will be dishonored or knowing that a person has ordered or will order stop payment on the check or other negotiable instrument. Misuse of Credit Cards ✔✔No person shall do any of the following: (1) Practice deception for the purpose of procuring the issuance of a credit card, when a credit card is issued in actual reliance thereon; (2) Knowingly buy or sell a credit card from or to a person other than the issuer; (B) No person, with purpose to defraud, shall do any of the following: (1) Obtain control over a credit card as security for a debt;
(2) Obtain property or services by the use of a credit card, in one or more transactions, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the card has expired or been revoked, or was obtained, is retained, or is being used in violation of law; Forgery ✔✔No person, with purpose to defraud, or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following: (1) Forge any writing of another without the other person's authority; (2) Forge any writing so that it purports to be genuine when it actually is spurious, or to be the act of another who did not authorize that act, or to have been executed at a time or place or with terms different from what in fact was the case, or to be a copy of an original when no such original existed; identity Fraud ✔✔No person, without the express or implied consent of the other person, shall use, obtain, or possess any personal identifying information of another person with intent to do either of the following: (1) Hold the person out to be the other person; Receiving Stolen Property ✔✔No person shall receive, retain, or dispose of property of another knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the property has been obtained through commission of a theft offense.
Aggravated Trespass ✔✔No person shall enter or remain on the land or premises of another with purpose to commit on that land or those premises a misdemeanor, the elements of which involve causing physical harm to another person or causing another person to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to him. Breaking and Entering ✔✔No person by force, stealth, or deception, shall trespass in an unoccupied structure, with purpose to commit therein any theft offense Burglary ✔✔No person, by force, stealth, or deception, shall do any of the following: (1) Trespass in an occupied structure or in a separately secured or separately occupied portion of an occupied structure, when another person other than an accomplice of the offender is present, with purpose to commit in the structure or in the separately secured or separately occupied portion of the structure any criminal offense; 2.2E-Recognize all elements of the select R.C. Chapter 2909 offense. ✔✔-Arson
- Disrupting Public Services
- Vandalism
- Criminal Damaging or Endangering
- Criminal Mischief
arson ✔✔No person, by means of fire or explosion, shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Cause, or create a substantial risk of, physical harm to any property of another without the other person's consent; (2) Cause, or create a substantial risk of, physical harm to any property of the offender or another, with purpose to defraud; Disrupting Public Services ✔✔No person, purposely by any means or knowingly by damaging or tampering with any property, shall do any of the following: (1) Interrupt or impair television, radio, telephone, telegraph, or other mass communications service; police, fire, or other public service communications; radar, loran, radio, or other electronic aids to air or marine navigation or communications; or amateur or citizens band radio communications being used for public service or emergency communications; vandalism ✔✔No person shall knowingly cause serious physical harm to an occupied structure or any of its contents. (B) (1) No person shall knowingly cause physical harm to property that is owned or possessed by another, when either of the following applies:
