Florida Law Enforcement Academy, Legal, Substantive Criminal Questions With Verified Answers | 100%

Florida Law Enforcement Academy, Legal, Substantive Criminal Questions With Verified Answers | 100% Corpus Delicti - ANSWER Before a person can be charged with a criminal offense, the officer must have evidence that a crime has been committed. The officer must determine whether the elements of a criminal act are present and have probable cause to believe that the person to be charged committed the crime. General Intent - ANSWER Defines most criminal offenses and requires some forbidden act by the offender. To qualify as an act, the offender's bodily movement must be voluntary. Specific intent - ANSWER Requires an expectation of a particular result, which requires heightened mental state of intent to commit the act. Will list in the statute the specific elements which must be met. Must be proved the suspect intentionally committed the act with a particular purpose or desire in mind. Transferred intent - ANSWER Is present when an intentional act harms an unintended second victim. Criminal Negligence - ANSWER Recklessness, imposes criminal liability on defendants when they did not intend for a behavior to cause the resulting harm. Culpable Negligence - ANSWER Consciously doing an act that the person knew or should have known was likely to cause death or great bodily injury. Crime - ANSWER An act that the law makes punishable Lascivious - ANSWER Means a wicked, lustful, or unchaste, licentious, or sensual intent on the part of the person doing the act. Lewd or Lascivious Battery - ANSWER Engaging in sexual activity or encouraging, forcing, enticing any person to engage in sadomasochistic abuse, sexual bestiality, prostitution, or any other act involving sexual activity. Lewd or Lascivious Molestation - ANSWER Intentionally touching in a lewd or lascivious manner the breasts, genitals, genital area, or buttocks, or the clothing covering them or forcing or enticing a person to so touch the perpetrator. Lewd or Lascivious Conduct - ANSWER Intentionally touching a person in a lewd or lascivious manner, or soliciting a person to commit a lewd or lascivious act. Lewd or Lascivious Exhibition - ANSWER Intentionally masturbating; intentionally exposing the genitals in a lewd or lascivious manner; or intentionally committing any other sexual act that does not involve actual physical or sexual contact with the victim, including, but not limited to, sadomasochistic abuse, sexual bestiality, or the simulation of any act involving sexual activity in the presence of a victim. Consent - ANSWER Intelligent, knowing, and voluntary, does not include coerced submission. Witness - ANSWER Any person who has information about some element of the crime or about evidence or documents related to the crime. A witness may have heard statements or observed events before, during, or after the crime. Victim - ANSWER A person or entity which suffers an injury as a result of a crime. The injury may involve physical harm, loss of money, loss of property, or damage to property Suspect - ANSWER The person believed to have committed the crime. Principal in the first degree - ANSWER (Does not have to be present when the crime is committed)If the defendant helped another person or other people to commit or attempt to commit a crime, the defendant is a principal and must be treated as if he or she had done all the things the other people or people did, if the defendant consciously intended that the criminal act be done. Accessory - ANSWER Defined as a person who aids or contributes in the commission or concealment of a crime.