SOCE Practice Test Exam Questions And
Answers Verified {2024/2025}
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The ________ guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial, and counsel, an impartial jury, to be
informed of the nature of charges, and to confront witnesses.
✓ Revocation of Certification
If an officer is found guilty of sexual abuse against a minor, what would happen to the officer's
certification?
✓ FBI
__________ to uphold the law through the investigation of violations of criminal law; to protect
the United States from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities.
✓ Case Law
The body of law is formed by the decisions of the court system
✓ Bill of Rights
These rights, such as freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and
prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, are described in the first then amendments to the
Constitution, which are known as the ___________________?
✓ Felony of 2nd Degree
15 years imprisonment with a fine of $10,000 or both applies to which classification of offenses?
✓ Reasonable Suspicion
At 3:00 AM Officer Dennis was patrolling the streets when he came encountered with a male
wearing a university hoody over his head with an object in his hands walking towards the dorms,
when Officer Dennis approached the male he began to walk faster and not look back, based on
what legal concept can Officer Dennis detain the male?
✓ investigate stop
Under the Stop and Frisk law, an _______________ may be made only if the officer has reasonable
suspicion that the person stopped was committing, is committing, or is about to commit a law violation
, ✓ Reasonable Suspicion
__________________ is the standard of justification needed to support a legal Terry stop or
investigative detention. Simply means that an officer can articulate, or put into words, facts
that support a suspicion that the person stopped was involved in a law violation.
✓ Pretext stop
An officer can stop the vehicle due to equipment violation but really wants to investigate other,
more serious criminal activity.
✓ Exclusionary Rule
During the court hearing of Jason Jones, the officer admitted to illegally obtaining evidence
against Mr. Jones, due to the violation of the constitution which rule did the officer violate?
✓ Act of Domestic Violence
When can an officer make an arrest which did not occur in his or her presence?
✓ Culpable negligence
Which negligence reaches the level of criminal responsibility.
✓ Theft
The state must prove the following elements to convict a suspect of _____________?
1. The offender knowingly and unlawfully obtained or used or endeavored to obtain or use the property
of another.
2. The offender did so with intent, either temporarily or permanently, to deprive victim of his or her
rights to the property or any benefit from it with the intent to deprive the victim of it use, or appropriate
the property of the victim to his or her own use of the use of any person not entitle to it.
✓ Burglary
The state must prove the following elements to convict a suspect of ___________?
1. The offender entered and/or remained in a structure or conveyance owned by or in the
possession of the victim.
2. The offender did not have the permission or consent of the victim, or anyone authorized to act
for the victim, to enter and/or remain in the structure or conveyance at the time.
3. At the time of entering and/or remaining in the structure or conveyance, the offender had a fully
formed, conscious intent to commit the crime that is listed in the charge.
✓ Trespass - In Structure or Conveyance
Answers Verified {2024/2025}
_____________________________________________________________________________________
The ________ guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial, and counsel, an impartial jury, to be
informed of the nature of charges, and to confront witnesses.
✓ Revocation of Certification
If an officer is found guilty of sexual abuse against a minor, what would happen to the officer's
certification?
✓ FBI
__________ to uphold the law through the investigation of violations of criminal law; to protect
the United States from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities.
✓ Case Law
The body of law is formed by the decisions of the court system
✓ Bill of Rights
These rights, such as freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and
prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, are described in the first then amendments to the
Constitution, which are known as the ___________________?
✓ Felony of 2nd Degree
15 years imprisonment with a fine of $10,000 or both applies to which classification of offenses?
✓ Reasonable Suspicion
At 3:00 AM Officer Dennis was patrolling the streets when he came encountered with a male
wearing a university hoody over his head with an object in his hands walking towards the dorms,
when Officer Dennis approached the male he began to walk faster and not look back, based on
what legal concept can Officer Dennis detain the male?
✓ investigate stop
Under the Stop and Frisk law, an _______________ may be made only if the officer has reasonable
suspicion that the person stopped was committing, is committing, or is about to commit a law violation
, ✓ Reasonable Suspicion
__________________ is the standard of justification needed to support a legal Terry stop or
investigative detention. Simply means that an officer can articulate, or put into words, facts
that support a suspicion that the person stopped was involved in a law violation.
✓ Pretext stop
An officer can stop the vehicle due to equipment violation but really wants to investigate other,
more serious criminal activity.
✓ Exclusionary Rule
During the court hearing of Jason Jones, the officer admitted to illegally obtaining evidence
against Mr. Jones, due to the violation of the constitution which rule did the officer violate?
✓ Act of Domestic Violence
When can an officer make an arrest which did not occur in his or her presence?
✓ Culpable negligence
Which negligence reaches the level of criminal responsibility.
✓ Theft
The state must prove the following elements to convict a suspect of _____________?
1. The offender knowingly and unlawfully obtained or used or endeavored to obtain or use the property
of another.
2. The offender did so with intent, either temporarily or permanently, to deprive victim of his or her
rights to the property or any benefit from it with the intent to deprive the victim of it use, or appropriate
the property of the victim to his or her own use of the use of any person not entitle to it.
✓ Burglary
The state must prove the following elements to convict a suspect of ___________?
1. The offender entered and/or remained in a structure or conveyance owned by or in the
possession of the victim.
2. The offender did not have the permission or consent of the victim, or anyone authorized to act
for the victim, to enter and/or remain in the structure or conveyance at the time.
3. At the time of entering and/or remaining in the structure or conveyance, the offender had a fully
formed, conscious intent to commit the crime that is listed in the charge.
✓ Trespass - In Structure or Conveyance
