TOMPSC SCCJA Cumulative Exam Study Guide (2025) – Comprehensive Law Enforcement
Revision Material
1st Amendment - ANS ✔✔Amendment that dealt with freedom of speech
4th Amendment - ANS ✔✔Search and seizure
5th Amendment - ANS ✔✔The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy
6th Amendment - ANS ✔✔Right to a speedy and public trial
14th Amendment - ANS ✔✔Due Process
Executive, Legislative, Judicial - ANS ✔✔Three Branches
Executive Branch - ANS ✔✔Enforces laws
Legislative Branch - ANS ✔✔Makes laws
Judicial Branch - ANS ✔✔Interprets the laws
Supreme Court - ANS ✔✔Article III of Constitution. Court of last resort. Judicial review.
President nominates all justices, including position of Chief Justice, and they must be confirmed
by a majority of the senate. 9 justices. Receive and dispose of approximately 5,000 cases a year,
and grant certiorari to about 150 cases. Term begins the first Monday of October and ends in
late June or early July.
,Due Process - ANS ✔✔No law will be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious and the means
selected to enforce that law shall have reasonable and substantial relation to the object being
sought to be achieved by that law or process
Fighting words - ANS ✔✔Words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an
immediate breach of peace
Intoxication, threats, physical interference - ANS ✔✔Forms of speech that are not protected
Texas v. Johnson - ANS ✔✔A 1989 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law banning
the burning of the American flag on the grounds that such action was symbolic speech
protected by the First Amendment.
Trial Running - ANS ✔✔Lost individuals will hastily travel the nearest trail or travel aid
Despondent - ANS ✔✔Persons who are severely depressed individuals or persons
contemplating suicide
View Enhancement - ANS ✔✔Type of strategy occurs when the lost person climbs a hill or tree
in order to improve or enhance their view of the area
16 - ANS ✔✔SC code of laws pertaining to weapons
Any person under the age of 18 - ANS ✔✔Definition of a child
Jeb v. Alabama - ANS ✔✔Case that established the equal protection clause
63 - ANS ✔✔SC Code pertaining to child abuse and juveniles
, 1996 - ANS ✔✔When was Megans Law passed?
94 - ANS ✔✔How many federal district courts are there?
13 - ANS ✔✔How many circuit courts of appeals are there?
Common pleas and general sessions - ANS ✔✔Two branches of a circuit court?
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire - ANS ✔✔Court case that established fighting words
Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution - ANS ✔✔3 phases of rape trauma syndrome
90% of population is right handed, majority don't use holsters - ANS ✔✔Characteristics of an
armed gunman
Protrusions, Printing, Weighted hemline, Straps/slings, commercial concealment gear - ANS
✔✔5 things you should look for on suspects carrying a weapon
Tapping, Grasping, Pressing - ANS ✔✔What are three security checks officers to look for with a
gunman?
Failure to make shelter/fire, discarding equipment, disrobing, failure to respond to searches,
failure to respond to searches, failure to use travel aids - ANS ✔✔Abnormal behaviors in lost
individuals
The Jury is sworn in - ANS ✔✔Double jeopardy attaches to a jury trial when?
Revision Material
1st Amendment - ANS ✔✔Amendment that dealt with freedom of speech
4th Amendment - ANS ✔✔Search and seizure
5th Amendment - ANS ✔✔The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy
6th Amendment - ANS ✔✔Right to a speedy and public trial
14th Amendment - ANS ✔✔Due Process
Executive, Legislative, Judicial - ANS ✔✔Three Branches
Executive Branch - ANS ✔✔Enforces laws
Legislative Branch - ANS ✔✔Makes laws
Judicial Branch - ANS ✔✔Interprets the laws
Supreme Court - ANS ✔✔Article III of Constitution. Court of last resort. Judicial review.
President nominates all justices, including position of Chief Justice, and they must be confirmed
by a majority of the senate. 9 justices. Receive and dispose of approximately 5,000 cases a year,
and grant certiorari to about 150 cases. Term begins the first Monday of October and ends in
late June or early July.
,Due Process - ANS ✔✔No law will be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious and the means
selected to enforce that law shall have reasonable and substantial relation to the object being
sought to be achieved by that law or process
Fighting words - ANS ✔✔Words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an
immediate breach of peace
Intoxication, threats, physical interference - ANS ✔✔Forms of speech that are not protected
Texas v. Johnson - ANS ✔✔A 1989 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law banning
the burning of the American flag on the grounds that such action was symbolic speech
protected by the First Amendment.
Trial Running - ANS ✔✔Lost individuals will hastily travel the nearest trail or travel aid
Despondent - ANS ✔✔Persons who are severely depressed individuals or persons
contemplating suicide
View Enhancement - ANS ✔✔Type of strategy occurs when the lost person climbs a hill or tree
in order to improve or enhance their view of the area
16 - ANS ✔✔SC code of laws pertaining to weapons
Any person under the age of 18 - ANS ✔✔Definition of a child
Jeb v. Alabama - ANS ✔✔Case that established the equal protection clause
63 - ANS ✔✔SC Code pertaining to child abuse and juveniles
, 1996 - ANS ✔✔When was Megans Law passed?
94 - ANS ✔✔How many federal district courts are there?
13 - ANS ✔✔How many circuit courts of appeals are there?
Common pleas and general sessions - ANS ✔✔Two branches of a circuit court?
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire - ANS ✔✔Court case that established fighting words
Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution - ANS ✔✔3 phases of rape trauma syndrome
90% of population is right handed, majority don't use holsters - ANS ✔✔Characteristics of an
armed gunman
Protrusions, Printing, Weighted hemline, Straps/slings, commercial concealment gear - ANS
✔✔5 things you should look for on suspects carrying a weapon
Tapping, Grasping, Pressing - ANS ✔✔What are three security checks officers to look for with a
gunman?
Failure to make shelter/fire, discarding equipment, disrobing, failure to respond to searches,
failure to respond to searches, failure to use travel aids - ANS ✔✔Abnormal behaviors in lost
individuals
The Jury is sworn in - ANS ✔✔Double jeopardy attaches to a jury trial when?
