BLEA 825 FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Assault of a Child 1st Degree - ✔✔A person eighteen years of age or older is guilty
of the crime of assault of a child in the first degree if the child is under the age of
thirteen and the person: commits assault 1st on the child, or recklessly causes great
bodily harm or causes substantial bodily harm with a pattern of assaults.
✔✔Assault of a Child 2nd Degree - ✔✔A person eighteen years of age or older is guilty
of the crime of assault of a child in the second degree if the child is under the age of
thirteen and the person: commits assault 2nd on the child or causes more than transient
pain with a pattern or causes bodily harm
✔✔assault of a child 3rd degree - ✔✔A person eighteen years of age or older is guilty of
the crime of assault of a child in the third degree if the child is under the age of thirteen
and the person commits the crime of assault in the third degree as defined in RCW
9A.36.031(1) (d) or (f) against the child.
✔✔Arson 1st Degree - ✔✔A person is guilty of arson in the first degree if he or she
knowingly and maliciously: Causes a fire or explosion which is manifestly dangerous to
any human life, including firefighters; or causes fire or explosion which damages a
building or dwelling, or causes such where a person who is not committing the crime is
in or, insurance reasons 10k or more
✔✔Arson 2nd Degree - ✔✔knowingly and maliciously causes a fire or explosion which
damages a building, or any structure or erection appurtenant to or joining any building,
or docks, or pretty much anything out in public.
✔✔reckless burning 1st - ✔✔A person is guilty of reckless burning in the first degree if
he or she recklessly damages a building or other structure or any vehicle, railway car,
aircraft, or watercraft or any hay, grain, crop, or timber whether cut or standing, by
knowingly causing a fire or explosion.
✔✔reckless burning 2nd - ✔✔A person is guilty of reckless burning in the second
degree if he or she knowingly causes a fire or explosion, whether on his or her own
property or that of another, and thereby recklessly places a building or other structure,
or any vehicle, railway car, aircraft, or watercraft, or any hay, grain, crop or timber,
whether cut or standing, in danger of destruction or damage.
✔✔Does physical contact need to be made for an assault to occur? - ✔✔no, flinch
factor
✔✔what is a frisk? - ✔✔a "pat down" on the outer clothing identifying what you can
articulate to be a weapon.
, ✔✔what is a search? - ✔✔A government intrusion into an individual's reasonable
expectation of privacy.
✔✔What is "fresh" or "hot" pursuit? - ✔✔A doctrine that provides that the police may
enter the premises where they suspect a crime has been committed without a warrant
when delay would endanger their lives or the lives of others and lead to the escape of
the alleged perpetrator; also sometimes called fresh pursuit.
✔✔warrant services on a 3rd party residence - ✔✔1) a serach warrant for the home of
the third party has been issued, or
2) he has consent of someone in charge of the premises, or
3) exigent circumstances exist
✔✔Assault 1st Degree - ✔✔with intent to inflict great bodily harm:
(a) Assaults another with a firearm or any deadly weapon or by any force or means
likely to produce great bodily harm or death; or
(b) Transmits HIV to a child or vulnerable adult; or
(c) Administers, exposes, or transmits to or causes to be taken by another, poison or
any other destructive or noxious substance; or
(d) Assaults another and inflicts great bodily harm.
✔✔Assault 2nd Degree - ✔✔under circumstances not amounting to assault in the first
degree:
(a) Intentionally assaults another and thereby recklessly inflicts substantial bodily harm;
or
(b) Intentionally and unlawfully causes substantial bodily harm to an unborn quick child
by intentionally and unlawfully inflicting any injury upon the mother of such child; or
(c) Assaults another with a deadly weapon; or
(d) With intent to inflict bodily harm, administers to or causes to be taken by another,
poison or any other destructive or noxious substance; or
(e) With intent to commit a felony, assaults another; or
(f) Knowingly inflicts bodily harm which by design causes such pain or agony as to be
the equivalent of that produced by torture; or
(g) Assaults another by strangulation or suffocation.
✔✔Assault 3rd Degree - ✔✔under circumstances not amounting to assault in the first or
second degree: with intent to prevent or resist apprehension, or assaults a public
servant, or With criminal negligence, causes bodily harm to another person by means of
a weapon or other instrument or thing likely to produce bodily harm, or With criminal
negligence, causes bodily harm accompanied by substantial pain that extends for a
period sufficient to cause considerable suffering
✔✔assault 4th degree - ✔✔unwanted touching or assaults another not amounting to
assault in the first, second, or third degree, or custodial assault, he or she assaults
another causing temporary transient pain.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Assault of a Child 1st Degree - ✔✔A person eighteen years of age or older is guilty
of the crime of assault of a child in the first degree if the child is under the age of
thirteen and the person: commits assault 1st on the child, or recklessly causes great
bodily harm or causes substantial bodily harm with a pattern of assaults.
✔✔Assault of a Child 2nd Degree - ✔✔A person eighteen years of age or older is guilty
of the crime of assault of a child in the second degree if the child is under the age of
thirteen and the person: commits assault 2nd on the child or causes more than transient
pain with a pattern or causes bodily harm
✔✔assault of a child 3rd degree - ✔✔A person eighteen years of age or older is guilty of
the crime of assault of a child in the third degree if the child is under the age of thirteen
and the person commits the crime of assault in the third degree as defined in RCW
9A.36.031(1) (d) or (f) against the child.
✔✔Arson 1st Degree - ✔✔A person is guilty of arson in the first degree if he or she
knowingly and maliciously: Causes a fire or explosion which is manifestly dangerous to
any human life, including firefighters; or causes fire or explosion which damages a
building or dwelling, or causes such where a person who is not committing the crime is
in or, insurance reasons 10k or more
✔✔Arson 2nd Degree - ✔✔knowingly and maliciously causes a fire or explosion which
damages a building, or any structure or erection appurtenant to or joining any building,
or docks, or pretty much anything out in public.
✔✔reckless burning 1st - ✔✔A person is guilty of reckless burning in the first degree if
he or she recklessly damages a building or other structure or any vehicle, railway car,
aircraft, or watercraft or any hay, grain, crop, or timber whether cut or standing, by
knowingly causing a fire or explosion.
✔✔reckless burning 2nd - ✔✔A person is guilty of reckless burning in the second
degree if he or she knowingly causes a fire or explosion, whether on his or her own
property or that of another, and thereby recklessly places a building or other structure,
or any vehicle, railway car, aircraft, or watercraft, or any hay, grain, crop or timber,
whether cut or standing, in danger of destruction or damage.
✔✔Does physical contact need to be made for an assault to occur? - ✔✔no, flinch
factor
✔✔what is a frisk? - ✔✔a "pat down" on the outer clothing identifying what you can
articulate to be a weapon.
, ✔✔what is a search? - ✔✔A government intrusion into an individual's reasonable
expectation of privacy.
✔✔What is "fresh" or "hot" pursuit? - ✔✔A doctrine that provides that the police may
enter the premises where they suspect a crime has been committed without a warrant
when delay would endanger their lives or the lives of others and lead to the escape of
the alleged perpetrator; also sometimes called fresh pursuit.
✔✔warrant services on a 3rd party residence - ✔✔1) a serach warrant for the home of
the third party has been issued, or
2) he has consent of someone in charge of the premises, or
3) exigent circumstances exist
✔✔Assault 1st Degree - ✔✔with intent to inflict great bodily harm:
(a) Assaults another with a firearm or any deadly weapon or by any force or means
likely to produce great bodily harm or death; or
(b) Transmits HIV to a child or vulnerable adult; or
(c) Administers, exposes, or transmits to or causes to be taken by another, poison or
any other destructive or noxious substance; or
(d) Assaults another and inflicts great bodily harm.
✔✔Assault 2nd Degree - ✔✔under circumstances not amounting to assault in the first
degree:
(a) Intentionally assaults another and thereby recklessly inflicts substantial bodily harm;
or
(b) Intentionally and unlawfully causes substantial bodily harm to an unborn quick child
by intentionally and unlawfully inflicting any injury upon the mother of such child; or
(c) Assaults another with a deadly weapon; or
(d) With intent to inflict bodily harm, administers to or causes to be taken by another,
poison or any other destructive or noxious substance; or
(e) With intent to commit a felony, assaults another; or
(f) Knowingly inflicts bodily harm which by design causes such pain or agony as to be
the equivalent of that produced by torture; or
(g) Assaults another by strangulation or suffocation.
✔✔Assault 3rd Degree - ✔✔under circumstances not amounting to assault in the first or
second degree: with intent to prevent or resist apprehension, or assaults a public
servant, or With criminal negligence, causes bodily harm to another person by means of
a weapon or other instrument or thing likely to produce bodily harm, or With criminal
negligence, causes bodily harm accompanied by substantial pain that extends for a
period sufficient to cause considerable suffering
✔✔assault 4th degree - ✔✔unwanted touching or assaults another not amounting to
assault in the first, second, or third degree, or custodial assault, he or she assaults
another causing temporary transient pain.
