TOMPSC SCCJA Cumulative Exam Questions (Latest
Update 2023-2024 Verified Answers)
1. 1st Amendment - correct answers ✅Amendment that dealt with
freedom of speech
2. 4th Amendment - correct answers ✅Search and seizure
3. 5th Amendment - correct answers ✅The Right to Remain
Silent/Double Jeopardy
4. 6th Amendment - correct answers ✅Right to a speedy and public trial
5. 14th Amendment - correct answers ✅Due Process
6. Executive, Legislative, Judicial - correct answers ✅Three Branches
7. Executive Branch - correct answers ✅Enforces laws
8. Legislative Branch - correct answers ✅Makes laws
9. Judicial Branch - correct answers ✅Interprets the laws
10. Supreme Court - correct answers ✅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
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, 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.
11. Due Process - correct answers ✅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
12. Fighting words - correct answers ✅Words that by their very
utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace
13. Intoxication, threats, physical interference - correct answers
✅Forms of speech that are not protected
14. Texas v. Johnson - correct answers ✅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.
15. Trial Running - correct answers ✅Lost individuals will hastily
travel the nearest trail or travel aid
16. Despondent - correct answers ✅Persons who are severely
depressed individuals or persons contemplating suicide
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,17. View Enhancement - correct answers ✅Type of strategy occurs
when the lost person climbs a hill or tree in order to improve or
enhance their view of the area
18. 16 - correct answers ✅SC code of laws pertaining to weapons
19. Any person under the age of 18 - correct answers ✅Definition of
a child
20. Jeb v. Alabama - correct answers ✅Case that established the
equal protection clause
21. 63 - correct answers ✅SC Code pertaining to child abuse and
juveniles
22. 1996 - correct answers ✅When was Megans Law passed?
23. 94 - correct answers ✅How many federal district courts are
there?
24. 13 - correct answers ✅How many circuit courts of appeals are
there?
25. Common pleas and general sessions - correct answers ✅Two
branches of a circuit court?
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, 26. Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire - correct answers ✅Court case
that established fighting words
27. Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution - correct answers ✅3
phases of rape trauma syndrome
28. 90% of population is right handed, majority don't use holsters -
correct answers ✅Characteristics of an armed gunman
29. Protrusions, Printing, Weighted hemline, Straps/slings,
commercial concealment gear - correct answers ✅5 things you should
look for on suspects carrying a weapon
30. Tapping, Grasping, Pressing - correct answers ✅What are three
security checks officers to look for with a gunman?
31. Failure to make shelter/fire, discarding equipment, disrobing,
failure to respond to searches, failure to respond to searches, failure
to use travel aids - correct answers ✅Abnormal behaviors in lost
individuals
32. The Jury is sworn in - correct answers ✅Double jeopardy
attaches to a jury trial when?
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Update 2023-2024 Verified Answers)
1. 1st Amendment - correct answers ✅Amendment that dealt with
freedom of speech
2. 4th Amendment - correct answers ✅Search and seizure
3. 5th Amendment - correct answers ✅The Right to Remain
Silent/Double Jeopardy
4. 6th Amendment - correct answers ✅Right to a speedy and public trial
5. 14th Amendment - correct answers ✅Due Process
6. Executive, Legislative, Judicial - correct answers ✅Three Branches
7. Executive Branch - correct answers ✅Enforces laws
8. Legislative Branch - correct answers ✅Makes laws
9. Judicial Branch - correct answers ✅Interprets the laws
10. Supreme Court - correct answers ✅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
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, 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.
11. Due Process - correct answers ✅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
12. Fighting words - correct answers ✅Words that by their very
utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace
13. Intoxication, threats, physical interference - correct answers
✅Forms of speech that are not protected
14. Texas v. Johnson - correct answers ✅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.
15. Trial Running - correct answers ✅Lost individuals will hastily
travel the nearest trail or travel aid
16. Despondent - correct answers ✅Persons who are severely
depressed individuals or persons contemplating suicide
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,17. View Enhancement - correct answers ✅Type of strategy occurs
when the lost person climbs a hill or tree in order to improve or
enhance their view of the area
18. 16 - correct answers ✅SC code of laws pertaining to weapons
19. Any person under the age of 18 - correct answers ✅Definition of
a child
20. Jeb v. Alabama - correct answers ✅Case that established the
equal protection clause
21. 63 - correct answers ✅SC Code pertaining to child abuse and
juveniles
22. 1996 - correct answers ✅When was Megans Law passed?
23. 94 - correct answers ✅How many federal district courts are
there?
24. 13 - correct answers ✅How many circuit courts of appeals are
there?
25. Common pleas and general sessions - correct answers ✅Two
branches of a circuit court?
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, 26. Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire - correct answers ✅Court case
that established fighting words
27. Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution - correct answers ✅3
phases of rape trauma syndrome
28. 90% of population is right handed, majority don't use holsters -
correct answers ✅Characteristics of an armed gunman
29. Protrusions, Printing, Weighted hemline, Straps/slings,
commercial concealment gear - correct answers ✅5 things you should
look for on suspects carrying a weapon
30. Tapping, Grasping, Pressing - correct answers ✅What are three
security checks officers to look for with a gunman?
31. Failure to make shelter/fire, discarding equipment, disrobing,
failure to respond to searches, failure to respond to searches, failure
to use travel aids - correct answers ✅Abnormal behaviors in lost
individuals
32. The Jury is sworn in - correct answers ✅Double jeopardy
attaches to a jury trial when?
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