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Police Academy: Legal Exam questions correctly answered graded A+
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Police Academy: Legal ExamTypes of law - correct answer ✔✔Constitutional law, statutory law, criminal law, civil law, administrative
law, case law
Statutory law - correct answer ✔✔Is written by Congress, state legislatures, or local governing
authorities in response to a perceived need statutory law include civil criminal administrative and
regulatory laws
Civil law - correct answer ✔✔type of law with legal action that a person takes to resolve a private
dispute with another person.
Administrative law - correct answer ✔✔The body of law that allows for creation of public a regulatory
agencies such as Medicaid and Florida administrative codes for certification and training of law-
enforcement officers
Criminal law - correct answer ✔✔Identifies unacceptable behaviors and Punishments for violations
Constitutional law - correct answer ✔✔Preamble, Bill of Rights, and amendments. Identifies powers and
limitations of each branch (executive, legislative, and judicial)
Case law - correct answer ✔✔Formed by decisions of the court system (judicial branch) Based on the
courts interpretation of constitutional provisions
First Amendment Rights - correct answer ✔✔Freedom of speech, press, peaceful assembly, and religion
Second amendment - correct answer ✔✔The right to bear arms and in Florida the stand your ground
right
,Fifth amendment - correct answer ✔✔Protection against compelled self-incrimination and requires jury
indictment for capital offenses, prohibits double jeopardy, and prevents the deprivation of life liberty
and property without due process of law
Sixth Amendment (US Constitution) - correct answer ✔✔The right to be informed of the nature of
charges, receive counsel, undergo a speedy and public trial, confront witnesses, and face and impartial
jury
Eighth amendment - correct answer ✔✔Prohibits excessive bail, fines, and cruel and unusual
punishment
Due process clause - correct answer ✔✔Part of the 14th amendment which states that no state shall
make or enforce any law that abridges the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law nor deny any
person within its jurisdiction to the equal protection of the laws
Substantive due process - correct answer ✔✔the law itself is fair-not the procedures-but the laws
Procedural due process - correct answer ✔✔The requirement that government follow certain
procedures before punishing a person
Offense - correct answer ✔✔Criminal or non-criminal acts that are punishable under Florida law
Felony - correct answer ✔✔Any crime committed where maximum penalty is death or incarceration in a
state correctional facility for more than one year
Life felony - correct answer ✔✔Up to life in prison or fine of $15,000 or both
Capital felony - correct answer ✔✔Death or life imprisonment without parole such as a 1st° murder.
Sexual battery on a child under 12 is also a capital felony but can only get a life prison sentence not
death
, 1st° felony - correct answer ✔✔Max penalty 30 years or $10,000 however kidnapping is a 1st° felony
punishable by life imprisonment
Second-degree felony - correct answer ✔✔Maximum 15 years prison and or $10,000 example
aggravated battery
3rd° felony - correct answer ✔✔Maximum five years and or fine of $5000 for example aggravated
assault
Examples of reclassification enhancements
(possibly move a MM to a F) - correct answer ✔✔Violent offense against law-enforcement officers,
wearing a mask to conceal identity while committing felony or misdemeanor, hate crime, possessing
weapon while committing crime, unlawful taking of law-enforcement's fire arm during crime, acts of
terrorism
Misdemeanor - correct answer ✔✔Criminal offense with a maximum incarceration penalty in county jail
for up to one year
First-degree misdemeanor - correct answer ✔✔Maximum one year in county jail fine of up to $1000
example battery
Second-degree misdemeanor - correct answer ✔✔Maximum 60 days in jail and or $500 fine example
property damage less than $200
Non-criminal violation - correct answer ✔✔A.k.a. civil infraction (not criminal) for which the only penalty
may be a fine, forfeiture, or other civil penalty
Consensual encounter - correct answer ✔✔Occurs when an officer comes into voluntary contact with
the person under circumstances in which reasonable person would feel free to disregard the police and
go about his or her business. It involves no coercion, no detention, and therefore is not a fourth
amendment seizure.
Florida versus Royer 1983 - correct answer ✔✔Circumstances surrounding the encounter that would
make it a consensual encounter:
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