NYPD 2ND TRIMESTER COMPREHENSION
DRIVE & VALIDATED DATA MAXIMUM GAIN
2026.
◍ Infancy. Ans: Defendant is not criminally liable due to their age:
- less than 7: no criminal responsibility.
- 7-15: Juvenile Delinquency (13,14,15 certain felonies are juvenile
offenders)
- 16 or older: charged as adults.
◍ Entrapment. Ans: Occurs when a defendant is actively induced,
encouraged, or lured by a public servant to commit an illegal act.
◍ Elements of an offense. Ans: Written law - defining the offense
Act - constituting the external physical part of a crime committed by
the offender.
Mental element - the offender's state of mind toward the act.
Result - injury or potential for injury produced by the act
Causal Relationship - between the unlawful act, the result, and the
underlying mental element.
◍ Attempt to commit a crime.. Ans: A change of attempt to commit a
crime will reduce the charge by one class.
ex: Class A felony to Class B Felony.
, ◍ Attempt. Ans: Engages in conduct which tends to effect the
commission of such crime.
◍ Forcible Touching (M). Ans: intentionally and for no legitimate
purpose, squeezes, grabs or pinches the sexual or other intimate parts
of another person.
◍ Facilitating a sex offense with a controlled substance (F). Ans:
Knowingly give victim substance without consent.
Intent to commit felony sex offense.
◍ Lack of consent.. Ans: Mentally disabled
Mentally incapacitated
Physically helpless
Forcible compulsion
underage
office of children and family services
health/mental health care provider
correctional facility
vulnerable person
◍ Sexual abuse (M). Ans: a person subjects another person to sexual
contact:
victim is over 10 but less than 17 yrs old
,victim is incapable of consent for reasons other than age (mentally
disabled or incapacitated)
without consent
◍ Sexual abuse (F). Ans: a person subjects another person to sexual
contact:
by forcible compulsion
victim physically helpless
victim is less than 11 yrs old
victim is less than 13 yrs old and the actor is 21 or older.
◍ Aggravated Sexual Abuse (F). Ans: when a person insert:
a foreign object (whether or not causing physical injury) or
a finger (causing PI or SPI) into another person's
"PURV"
Penis
Urethra
Rectum
Vagina without consent.
◍ Accessorial conduct. Ans: acting with the mental culpability for
the commission of an offense.
Directs or aids another person to engage in an offense.
"acting in concert"
, Individuals acting with the same mental state are both guilty of an
offense.
◍ Statute of limitations. Ans: class a and certain b felonies = no time
limit
certain class b and c,d,e felony = 5 years
misdemeanor = 2 yrs
petty offense = 1 yr
◍ Purpose of the penal law. Ans: forbid conduct that causes or
threatens to cause harm.
◍ Intent
and
Motive. Ans: the determination to an act
the desire to make you want to do a criminal act.
◍ 4 culpable mental states.. Ans: reckless - aware of and disregards
risk
intentional - objective is to cause a result
criminal negligence - fails to see risk
knowingly - aware of conduct causing risk.
◍ reckless. Ans: aware of and disregards risk
DRIVE & VALIDATED DATA MAXIMUM GAIN
2026.
◍ Infancy. Ans: Defendant is not criminally liable due to their age:
- less than 7: no criminal responsibility.
- 7-15: Juvenile Delinquency (13,14,15 certain felonies are juvenile
offenders)
- 16 or older: charged as adults.
◍ Entrapment. Ans: Occurs when a defendant is actively induced,
encouraged, or lured by a public servant to commit an illegal act.
◍ Elements of an offense. Ans: Written law - defining the offense
Act - constituting the external physical part of a crime committed by
the offender.
Mental element - the offender's state of mind toward the act.
Result - injury or potential for injury produced by the act
Causal Relationship - between the unlawful act, the result, and the
underlying mental element.
◍ Attempt to commit a crime.. Ans: A change of attempt to commit a
crime will reduce the charge by one class.
ex: Class A felony to Class B Felony.
, ◍ Attempt. Ans: Engages in conduct which tends to effect the
commission of such crime.
◍ Forcible Touching (M). Ans: intentionally and for no legitimate
purpose, squeezes, grabs or pinches the sexual or other intimate parts
of another person.
◍ Facilitating a sex offense with a controlled substance (F). Ans:
Knowingly give victim substance without consent.
Intent to commit felony sex offense.
◍ Lack of consent.. Ans: Mentally disabled
Mentally incapacitated
Physically helpless
Forcible compulsion
underage
office of children and family services
health/mental health care provider
correctional facility
vulnerable person
◍ Sexual abuse (M). Ans: a person subjects another person to sexual
contact:
victim is over 10 but less than 17 yrs old
,victim is incapable of consent for reasons other than age (mentally
disabled or incapacitated)
without consent
◍ Sexual abuse (F). Ans: a person subjects another person to sexual
contact:
by forcible compulsion
victim physically helpless
victim is less than 11 yrs old
victim is less than 13 yrs old and the actor is 21 or older.
◍ Aggravated Sexual Abuse (F). Ans: when a person insert:
a foreign object (whether or not causing physical injury) or
a finger (causing PI or SPI) into another person's
"PURV"
Penis
Urethra
Rectum
Vagina without consent.
◍ Accessorial conduct. Ans: acting with the mental culpability for
the commission of an offense.
Directs or aids another person to engage in an offense.
"acting in concert"
, Individuals acting with the same mental state are both guilty of an
offense.
◍ Statute of limitations. Ans: class a and certain b felonies = no time
limit
certain class b and c,d,e felony = 5 years
misdemeanor = 2 yrs
petty offense = 1 yr
◍ Purpose of the penal law. Ans: forbid conduct that causes or
threatens to cause harm.
◍ Intent
and
Motive. Ans: the determination to an act
the desire to make you want to do a criminal act.
◍ 4 culpable mental states.. Ans: reckless - aware of and disregards
risk
intentional - objective is to cause a result
criminal negligence - fails to see risk
knowingly - aware of conduct causing risk.
◍ reckless. Ans: aware of and disregards risk
