VA DCJS 2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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✔✔ensures that the public has ready access to public records in the custody of a public
body and gives them the right to attend public meetings. -✔✔Va. Code Ann. 2.2-3700 et
seq. VA Freedom of Information Act
✔✔governs the maintenance and dissemination of individuals' personal information that
is housed within government agencies. Gives individual citizens the right to examine
their own public records and make copies. -✔✔Va. Code Ann. 2.2-3700 et seq. Data
collection and Dissemination Practices Act
✔✔Defendants can be charged differently depending on their involvement in a particular
crime. -✔✔Principals and Accessories
✔✔The main perpetrator who commits a crime -✔✔Principal in the first degree
✔✔Must know or have reason to know of the perpetrator's intention and must
encourage, incite or offer aid in the commission of the crime. Present at or near the
scene of the crime. -✔✔Principal in the second degree
✔✔Knew or had reason to know of the perpetrator's intention and contrived, instigated,
or advised prior to the crime. -✔✔accessories before the fact
✔✔Received, relieved, comforted or assisted the perpetrator knowing that he was guilty
of a completed felony -✔✔accessories after the fact
✔✔Larceny from the person of anything with a value of $5 or more -OR- Simple larceny
not from the person with a value of $1,000 or more -OR- Simple larceny not from the
person of any firearm regardless of value -✔✔Grand Larceny
, ✔✔Larceny from the person of anything with less than $5 value - OR- Simple larceny
not from the person with value less than $1,000 (misdemeanor) -✔✔Petit Larceny
✔✔Principal in the second degree and accessories before the fact -✔✔What is charge
the same as principal in the first degree?
✔✔Any crime that is not completed may be charged as an attempt to commit the crime.
It requires:
1. The intent to commit the crime; and
2. A direct act towards the communication of the criminal act -✔✔Attempt?
✔✔The illegal obtaining of another's property by making a materially false
representation of an existing fact, with knowledge of the falsity of the representation and
with the intent to defraud (felony) -✔✔False Pretense
✔✔is the making of a false writing which, if genuine would be apparently of legal
efficacy (felony) -✔✔Forgery
✔✔is the assertion by word of action that a writing known to be forged is good and valid
(felony) -✔✔Uttering
✔✔with intent to defraud the issuer or entity providing anything of value in return--
falsely make or falsely emboss a purported credit card (felony) -✔✔Credit Card Forgery
✔✔includes fraudulently making the coin or bill or uttering the fraudulently made coin or
bill (felony) -✔✔Counterfeiting
✔✔unlawful to obtain a VA operator's license, identification card, vehicle registration.
title, license plate, decal or other DMV document if the person does not satisfy the
requirements for their issuance, or if they are otherwise not entitled to it -✔✔DMV fraud
✔✔any weapon which shoots or is deigned to shoot automatically more than one shot,
without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger. -✔✔Machine gun
✔✔applies to any of these crimes or attempts to commit these crimes; murder,
manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, mayhem, malicious wounding, robbery, burglary,
housebreaking, B&E and larceny. -✔✔Crime of violence
✔✔- when the machine gun is on premise, not owned or rented for residence or
business occupancy by the person in possession of the machine gun.
- the gun is in possession of someone who has been convicted of a crime of violence
- the gun has not been properly registered
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✔✔ensures that the public has ready access to public records in the custody of a public
body and gives them the right to attend public meetings. -✔✔Va. Code Ann. 2.2-3700 et
seq. VA Freedom of Information Act
✔✔governs the maintenance and dissemination of individuals' personal information that
is housed within government agencies. Gives individual citizens the right to examine
their own public records and make copies. -✔✔Va. Code Ann. 2.2-3700 et seq. Data
collection and Dissemination Practices Act
✔✔Defendants can be charged differently depending on their involvement in a particular
crime. -✔✔Principals and Accessories
✔✔The main perpetrator who commits a crime -✔✔Principal in the first degree
✔✔Must know or have reason to know of the perpetrator's intention and must
encourage, incite or offer aid in the commission of the crime. Present at or near the
scene of the crime. -✔✔Principal in the second degree
✔✔Knew or had reason to know of the perpetrator's intention and contrived, instigated,
or advised prior to the crime. -✔✔accessories before the fact
✔✔Received, relieved, comforted or assisted the perpetrator knowing that he was guilty
of a completed felony -✔✔accessories after the fact
✔✔Larceny from the person of anything with a value of $5 or more -OR- Simple larceny
not from the person with a value of $1,000 or more -OR- Simple larceny not from the
person of any firearm regardless of value -✔✔Grand Larceny
, ✔✔Larceny from the person of anything with less than $5 value - OR- Simple larceny
not from the person with value less than $1,000 (misdemeanor) -✔✔Petit Larceny
✔✔Principal in the second degree and accessories before the fact -✔✔What is charge
the same as principal in the first degree?
✔✔Any crime that is not completed may be charged as an attempt to commit the crime.
It requires:
1. The intent to commit the crime; and
2. A direct act towards the communication of the criminal act -✔✔Attempt?
✔✔The illegal obtaining of another's property by making a materially false
representation of an existing fact, with knowledge of the falsity of the representation and
with the intent to defraud (felony) -✔✔False Pretense
✔✔is the making of a false writing which, if genuine would be apparently of legal
efficacy (felony) -✔✔Forgery
✔✔is the assertion by word of action that a writing known to be forged is good and valid
(felony) -✔✔Uttering
✔✔with intent to defraud the issuer or entity providing anything of value in return--
falsely make or falsely emboss a purported credit card (felony) -✔✔Credit Card Forgery
✔✔includes fraudulently making the coin or bill or uttering the fraudulently made coin or
bill (felony) -✔✔Counterfeiting
✔✔unlawful to obtain a VA operator's license, identification card, vehicle registration.
title, license plate, decal or other DMV document if the person does not satisfy the
requirements for their issuance, or if they are otherwise not entitled to it -✔✔DMV fraud
✔✔any weapon which shoots or is deigned to shoot automatically more than one shot,
without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger. -✔✔Machine gun
✔✔applies to any of these crimes or attempts to commit these crimes; murder,
manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, mayhem, malicious wounding, robbery, burglary,
housebreaking, B&E and larceny. -✔✔Crime of violence
✔✔- when the machine gun is on premise, not owned or rented for residence or
business occupancy by the person in possession of the machine gun.
- the gun is in possession of someone who has been convicted of a crime of violence
- the gun has not been properly registered
