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3:30am and your patrolling a parking lot with a jewelry store. You notice a HMA with a hoodie looking inside the window of the jewelry store. You approach him. Consensual or detention? - ✔✔Censensual Encounter An area or object means having enough facts or information to provide a fair probability, or a substantial chance, that the item sought is located in the place to be searched. What type of search is this?
- Probable cause search
- Seizure search
- Reasonable suspicion search
- Warrantless search - ✔✔Probable Cause Search A family arrived at a campground in their motor home. The property manager offered the lot for free if the family would agree to pay for the utilities. The father agreed, even though he knew they would not have enough money to do so. After five weeks, the family drove off late one night without telling the manager and not paying the $360 bill. What crime did The father commit? And PC - ✔✔PC 537 Defraud an Innkeeper A woman knew that her boss owned several expensive
coins and kept them at his home. While he was away on business, she decided to go to his apartment to steal his coin collection. She entered the apartment with the key he kept in his desk at the office. She went to the drawer where the coins were stored; however, they weren't there. She quickly left the apartment. She committed what crime? - ✔✔Burglary Officers with a warrant set off firecrackers to simulate gunfire, then asked the occupants inside the fortress-like house to come outside to check their vehicles for damage. Once the barricades to the home were down, the officers announced their identity and authority to conduct a search. This is called a what type of entry? Legal Entry Search Entry Consent Entry Ruse Entry Warrantless entry - ✔✔Ruse Entry During a search authorized by a search warrant, officers are limited by the information specified in the search warrant. This is known what type of search? Scope of the search
A man picked up his girlfriend in a car he had stolen. He bragged to her how easy it was to steal the car. They took turns driving the car around until it ran out of gas and then they abandoned it. Who is guilty of vehicle theft? - ✔✔Both are charged with vehicle theft since they both drove the car with intent to temporarily deprive, even if the girlfriend did not take the car. At 3:30 a.m., a woman was seen at the rear door of a closed building in an area where a number of recent burglaries had taken place. The officers stopped their vehicle and asked her if she needed any help. She acted nervous and shifted her weight from foot to foot. In doing so, a set of lock picks fell from her pocket. She could not credibly answer why she had the picks. Can the officers arrest her? What PC if they can arrest? - ✔✔The officers could arrest her for PC 466 possession of burglary tools An employer asked his employee to have a copy of the master key made for the new vice president. The employee changed the number of keys on the request form and kept the extra key, planning to enter his employer's office after hours and steal office equipment. The employer noticed that an additional key was billed on the receipt and confronted the employee, who admitted the deceit. What can he be charged with? - ✔✔The employee committed the crime of possession of burglary tools by having a key made with intent to commit a theft A man stole $2000 in jewelry. He gave an engagement ring
and a diamond necklace to his girlfriend and admitted that he had stolen them. When he was arrested, she hid the jewelry and claimed she never received them. The police obtained a search warrant and found the jewelry hidden in her apartment. WhT crime has she committed? - ✔✔She committed the crime of receiving stolen property because she concealed property known to be stolen. One night a woman entered her ex-boyfriend's home through an open window and waited for him to come home. When he arrived, the woman began professing her undying love for him. When she refused to leave, he called law enforcement. PC 602 Or PC 602.5 - ✔✔PC 602.5 - She committed the crime of unauthorized entry of property as she did not have consent to enter his Home. A homeless man found a vacant apartment with a broken out window. He climbed through the window and lived there for three months until the owner found him. Is this:
legality of the search of the tool box Neighbors complained about a run-down garage with stripped cars in back and lots of activity during normal work hours as well as unusual hours at night. Most of the reported activity did not involve pumping gas or other typical gas station activities. Officers had suspected the existence of a stolen car "chop shop" within that particular neighborhood that was tied to gang activity. Is there anything illegal happening here? Are officers able to make entry into the garage? What is the next step the officers should request? - ✔✔Although nothing illegal had taken place at the site, this information contributed toward probable cause to obtain a search warrant. A man had an argument with his neighbor. The man threw turpentine on the hood of his neighbor's car and causing $900 in damage to the paint. What's the crime? - ✔✔PC 594 Felony Officers were sent to an apartment with a warrant to search for illegal weapons. The resident of the apartment had been arrested in the past by the same officers for armed robbery. The officers had specific reasons to believe the suspect was currently armed and would flee if given the opportunity. For reasons of officer safety and to prevent escape, the officers announced their presence but entered without waiting for a response. Is this justifiable and why? - ✔✔Yes - Exigent Circumstances An officer responding to a burglary call talked to a neighbor who said two
teenagers had just fled with a TV. While investigating, the officer found an open window on the property with a box on the ground beneath it containing a TV. The officer entered the property to see if any burglars or victims might still be inside. Once inside, the officer found a clandestine drug lab in plain view. Are they able to seize the lab? What is the term called for being able to seize the lab? - ✔✔Yes, it's the Nexus rule. Pause the house, obtain the warrant for further investigation An officer was in a hotel room questioning a female companion of a man who had been arrested for armed robbery earlier that day. In the course of the questioning, the woman grabbed her make-up bag from a nearby dresser. Because it was reasonable to suspect that the woman might be reaching for a weapon, the officer seized the bag. When the officer realized the bag was heavy and large enough to potentially contain a weapon, he opened the bag to search it. Since the officer did not do a pat/down search on her, and he didn't see an imprint on the bag of a weapon, does the officer have legal justification to search inside the bag? - ✔✔YES- When the officer realized the bag was heavy and large enough to potentially contain a weapon, he opened the bag to search it.justification is she was with a person earlier that day who committed "armed robbery" During a traffic stop for speeding, an officer noticed the smell of beer inside the vehicle. Although the driver performed good in a series of sobriety tests. Does the officer have probable cause to search the passenger compartment for open containers of alcohol? - ✔✔100% justifiable, he smells the beer from inside.
A peace officer observed a person walking with a screwdriver in the area of a recent auto theft; the person matched a broadcast description which had been given. The dispatcher also indicated that the person was armed with a knife. The officer made contact with the person. The officer conducted a cursory search and retrieved an illegal firearm. Upon further questioning, the person was found not to be involved in the original incident. Can he be arrested for possession of an illegal firearms? - ✔✔Yes A hunter sawed down the barrel of a hunting "rifle" to a length of 15 inches. Even though the overall length of the rifle was still over 26 inches. Is this a prohibited weapon? - ✔✔Prohibited weapon because Rifle Barrel is under the 16 inches. A man reported that his former girlfriend had called and told him she was on her way with a knife and was going to "get even with him for dumping her." Officers were able to intercept the woman before she reached the man's apartment and found that the woman possessed a sharp kitchen knife. If there is a crime, what is the charge and PC? Is it illegal to have a kitchen knife? And why or why not? - ✔✔She has committed the crime of possession of a deadly weapon with intent to assault another person. A 12-year-old child went to an emergency room with severe welts on his back. The parents denied any responsibility even though the child said his father whipped him with an electrical cord. What should you do as an officer? W&I code? - ✔✔Take child into temporary custody - W&I 300
A man knew the victim was intoxicated by drugs or alcohol and was unable to give consent. The man had penile/vaginal intercourse with the victim; the crime of rape was committed against the victim. What is the PC? - ✔✔PC 261 A man wrestled a female to the ground in a dark carport with intent to rape her. The headlights of an approaching car frightened him off before he could complete the sex act.
- Rape
- Attempted Rape
- Molesting
- Assault with intent to commit Rape - ✔✔The man committed assault with intent to commit rape. (Penal Code Sections 220(a)) A man restrained a male victim and pulled his pants off while stating his intent to sodomize the victim. The victim, however, was stronger and fought the man off. The man committed assault with intent to commit sodomy. (Penal Code Sections 220(a)) - ✔✔1. Sodomy
- Attempted Rape
- Molesting
- Assault with intent to commit Sodomy. A man who penetrated a woman's vagina with the barrel of a gun against her will. What crime was committed?
- Rape
- Assault with really weapon
- Penetration with a foreign object
- Sodomy - ✔✔committed the crime of penetration with a foreign object.
During a dispute between motorists on the freeway, Smith rammed his car into Jones' car in an attempt to run Jones off the road. As a result, Jones' car struck Johnson's car, causing Johnson to lose control and hit a utility pole. Subsequently, Johnson died. Smith was charged with murder.
- General Intent
- Specific intent
- Transferred Intent - ✔✔Transferred Intent Two men were arrested for a drive-by shooting. One of them volunteers to provide testimony against the shooter. His testimony was corroborated by the shooter's fingerprints found on the gun. His corroborated testimony against the shooter. What does this make him?
- Accessory
- Principal
- Accomplice
- Aiding and abetting - ✔✔makes him an accomplice to the crime. A man spent the night at a hotel. He knew that he had only enough money to buy gas to get home, so he left without paying. What crime was committed? - ✔✔The man committed a crime or defrauding an innkeeper because he used the facilities and had no intent of paying the proprietor A man entered an apartment by the window with the intent to rape the woman who lived there. As he was sneaking to the woman's bedroom, her doorbell rang. The woman answered her door and left with the person who was at the door. The suspect decided to leave and was caught by the security guard while climbing out the window.
What crime was committed?
- Attempted rape
- Trespass
- Burglary
- No crime - ✔✔PC 459 The suspect committed burglary as he intended to commit a felony (rape) when he entered her apartment, even though the rape was not completed. A man found a checkbook outside a grocery store. He went into the store and bought $130 worth of groceries. He signed the check with the name in the checkbook. What crime was committed? PC? - ✔✔PC 470- The man committed the crime of forgery because he was not authorized to sign the check. Two men argued over the final results of the football game. The first man didn't think his friend knew what he was talking about and spit at him; the spittle landed on his friend's shirt. Who committed the crime first? What crime? PC?
- Battery
- Assault
- Assault with deadly weapon - ✔✔The first man has committed the crime of battery because he made contact even though he caused no harm. PC242 - Battery A paraplegic adult required home care. The caretaker arrived every morning to dress the paraplegic and clean
- Manslaughter
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- Vehicle Manslaughter - ✔✔The teen has committed vehicular manslaughter with negligence, because his speeding did not constitute a felony and was not excessive enough to show willful and wanton disregard for safety. Leaving the house a few minutes late, a woman began driving to work. She was driving approximately 75 mph in a school zone when suddenly the car in front stopped for a school bus. The woman could not stop and plowed into the car. The car was forced into the stopped bus. The driver of the car hit by the woman was taken to a hospital where he died later that night.
- Manslaughter
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- Vehicle Manslaughter - ✔✔The woman has committed the crime vehicular manslaughter A man was in his suburban backyard with a high- powered rifle, practicing shooting into a cardboard target. He hit the target, but the bullet continued into a neighbor's house where it hit and killed the neighbor.
- Manslaughter
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- Vehicle Manslaughter - ✔✔The man has committed the crime of involuntary manslaughter because he didn't take into account the safety of others (i.e., gross negligence) whose homes were only a short distance away. A husband came home unexpectedly in the middle of the day. He walked into his bedroom and found his wife in
bed with his best friend. The husband got his gun out of the bedroom closet and killed the man. What crime?
- Manslaughter
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- Vehicle Manslaughter - ✔✔The husband has committed the crime of voluntary manslaughter because he killed his friend in the heat of passion. A man drank a bottle of alcohol while sitting in a bar. At one point he got so intoxicated he fell on the floor and couldn't get up again. What crime? PC? - ✔✔PC 647F — The man has committed the crime of public intoxication because he was under the influence of alcohol in a public place and obstructed a public way. A husband placed both hands around his wife's throat and began to apply pressure during an argument. While applying pressure to the wife's throat, the wife began to experience vision changes and became light-headed. Officer arrived and saw minor scratches but saw hand prints on the neck. Which DV crime is this? PC 243 e 1 Or PC 273.5 a - ✔✔PC 273.5 a —- This is willful infliction of corporal injury
