SOCE ACTUAL SCRIPT ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
\
✔✔Second Amendment - ✔✔Guarantees the right to bear arms.
✔✔Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits unreasonable search and seizure and may
require a warrant signed by an independent magistrate (judge).
✔✔Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits compelled self-incrimination, requires grand jury
indictment for capital crimes, and prohibits double jeopardy and deprivation of life,
liberty, or property without due process of law.
✔✔Sixth Amendment - ✔✔Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial; a fair jury;
an attorney; a chance to confront witnesses; be informed of the nature of the charges.
✔✔Eighth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits excessive bails and fines and cruel and unusual
punishment.
✔✔Fourteenth Amendment - ✔✔Expanded the application of the Bill of Rights to state
and local governments.
✔✔Due process - ✔✔Means that laws must be applied fairly and equally to all people,
including a person accused of a crime.
✔✔Offense - ✔✔A breach of law and broadly describes criminal or non-criminal acts
that are punishable under Florida law.
✔✔Civil penalty - ✔✔A non-criminal violation, also known as a civil infraction.
✔✔Local criminal ordinance violation - ✔✔May carry up to 60 days in a county jail
and/or a $500 fine.
,✔✔Non-criminal ordinance fine - ✔✔Not limited in amount; there are numerous
municipal and county civil code violations that carry fines greater than $500.
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any criminal offense with a maximum incarceration penalty in a
county jail of up to one year.
✔✔Second-degree misdemeanor - ✔✔Carries a maximum penalty of 60 days in a
county jail and/or a fine of up to $500, or both.
✔✔First-degree misdemeanor - ✔✔Carries a maximum penalty of one year in a county
jail and fine of up to $1,000, or both.
✔✔Felony - ✔✔Any criminal offense committed where the maximum penalty is death or
incarceration in a state correctional facility for more than one year.
✔✔Third-degree felony - ✔✔Carries a maximum penalty of five years in a state
correctional facility, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.
✔✔Second-degree felony - ✔✔Punishable by a maximum of 15 years in a state
correctional facility, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
✔✔First-degree felony - ✔✔Carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in a state
correctional facility, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
✔✔Life felony - ✔✔Has varying penalties depending on the date and type of crime
committed; the maximum penalty is life incarceration in a state correctional facility
without the possibility of parole or probation, a fine of up to $15,000, or both.
✔✔Capital felony - ✔✔The highest class of felony; the penalty for offenses in this class
is death or life incarceration in a state correctional facility without the possibility of
parole.
✔✔Enhanced penalty - ✔✔A sentence that is increased from one classification of
offense to a more serious classification due to a prior conviction or the serious nature of
the circumstances involved.
✔✔Principal in the first degree - ✔✔A person who commits any criminal offense,
whether felony or misdemeanor, aids, abets, counsels, hires, or persuades an offense
to be committed or attempted.
✔✔Accessory after the fact - ✔✔A person who gives the principal any aid with the intent
that the principal avoids or escapes detention, arrest, trial, or punishment.
, ✔✔Criminal intent - ✔✔The conscious decision someone makes to deliberately engage
in an unlawful or negligent act, or to harm someone else.
✔✔Probable cause - ✔✔A fair probability or reasonable grounds to believe that
someone committed a crime, based on the totality of circumstances.
✔✔General intent - ✔✔Defines most criminal offenses and requires some forbidden act
by the offender; the offender's bodily movement must be voluntary.
✔✔Specific intent - ✔✔The intent to commit a crime and the intent to deprive an owner
of something permanently; refers to an individual's state of mind at the time the crime is
committed accompanied by the physical act.
✔✔Transferred intent - ✔✔When a crime is intended to harm one person and
inadvertently causes a second person to be hurt instead; the crime charged must bear
some relationship to the actions of the defendant.
✔✔Recklessness - ✔✔Imposes criminal liability on defendants when they did not intend
for a behavior to cause the resulting harm.
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔The failure to behave with the level of care that a reasonably
prudent person would have exercised under the same circumstances.
✔✔Compensatory damages - ✔✔Damages designed to compensate for the actual
property damage, harm, or injury that the plaintiff suffers.
✔✔General damages - ✔✔Damages presumed to result from the defendant's actions.
✔✔Special damages - ✔✔Damages actually caused by the injury.
✔✔Nominal damages - ✔✔Damages in name only; awarded when the jury believes the
plaintiff's rights were violated.
✔✔Punitive damages - ✔✔Damages intended to punish the defendant for their act and
to warn others from doing the same act.
✔✔Consensual encounter - ✔✔Occurs when you have voluntary contact with a person
and they are free to go at any time.
✔✔Investigative stop - ✔✔A stop made by an officer only if they have reasonable
suspicion that the person stopped was committing, is committing, or is about to commit
a law violation.
SET A+
\
✔✔Second Amendment - ✔✔Guarantees the right to bear arms.
✔✔Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits unreasonable search and seizure and may
require a warrant signed by an independent magistrate (judge).
✔✔Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits compelled self-incrimination, requires grand jury
indictment for capital crimes, and prohibits double jeopardy and deprivation of life,
liberty, or property without due process of law.
✔✔Sixth Amendment - ✔✔Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial; a fair jury;
an attorney; a chance to confront witnesses; be informed of the nature of the charges.
✔✔Eighth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits excessive bails and fines and cruel and unusual
punishment.
✔✔Fourteenth Amendment - ✔✔Expanded the application of the Bill of Rights to state
and local governments.
✔✔Due process - ✔✔Means that laws must be applied fairly and equally to all people,
including a person accused of a crime.
✔✔Offense - ✔✔A breach of law and broadly describes criminal or non-criminal acts
that are punishable under Florida law.
✔✔Civil penalty - ✔✔A non-criminal violation, also known as a civil infraction.
✔✔Local criminal ordinance violation - ✔✔May carry up to 60 days in a county jail
and/or a $500 fine.
,✔✔Non-criminal ordinance fine - ✔✔Not limited in amount; there are numerous
municipal and county civil code violations that carry fines greater than $500.
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any criminal offense with a maximum incarceration penalty in a
county jail of up to one year.
✔✔Second-degree misdemeanor - ✔✔Carries a maximum penalty of 60 days in a
county jail and/or a fine of up to $500, or both.
✔✔First-degree misdemeanor - ✔✔Carries a maximum penalty of one year in a county
jail and fine of up to $1,000, or both.
✔✔Felony - ✔✔Any criminal offense committed where the maximum penalty is death or
incarceration in a state correctional facility for more than one year.
✔✔Third-degree felony - ✔✔Carries a maximum penalty of five years in a state
correctional facility, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.
✔✔Second-degree felony - ✔✔Punishable by a maximum of 15 years in a state
correctional facility, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
✔✔First-degree felony - ✔✔Carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in a state
correctional facility, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
✔✔Life felony - ✔✔Has varying penalties depending on the date and type of crime
committed; the maximum penalty is life incarceration in a state correctional facility
without the possibility of parole or probation, a fine of up to $15,000, or both.
✔✔Capital felony - ✔✔The highest class of felony; the penalty for offenses in this class
is death or life incarceration in a state correctional facility without the possibility of
parole.
✔✔Enhanced penalty - ✔✔A sentence that is increased from one classification of
offense to a more serious classification due to a prior conviction or the serious nature of
the circumstances involved.
✔✔Principal in the first degree - ✔✔A person who commits any criminal offense,
whether felony or misdemeanor, aids, abets, counsels, hires, or persuades an offense
to be committed or attempted.
✔✔Accessory after the fact - ✔✔A person who gives the principal any aid with the intent
that the principal avoids or escapes detention, arrest, trial, or punishment.
, ✔✔Criminal intent - ✔✔The conscious decision someone makes to deliberately engage
in an unlawful or negligent act, or to harm someone else.
✔✔Probable cause - ✔✔A fair probability or reasonable grounds to believe that
someone committed a crime, based on the totality of circumstances.
✔✔General intent - ✔✔Defines most criminal offenses and requires some forbidden act
by the offender; the offender's bodily movement must be voluntary.
✔✔Specific intent - ✔✔The intent to commit a crime and the intent to deprive an owner
of something permanently; refers to an individual's state of mind at the time the crime is
committed accompanied by the physical act.
✔✔Transferred intent - ✔✔When a crime is intended to harm one person and
inadvertently causes a second person to be hurt instead; the crime charged must bear
some relationship to the actions of the defendant.
✔✔Recklessness - ✔✔Imposes criminal liability on defendants when they did not intend
for a behavior to cause the resulting harm.
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔The failure to behave with the level of care that a reasonably
prudent person would have exercised under the same circumstances.
✔✔Compensatory damages - ✔✔Damages designed to compensate for the actual
property damage, harm, or injury that the plaintiff suffers.
✔✔General damages - ✔✔Damages presumed to result from the defendant's actions.
✔✔Special damages - ✔✔Damages actually caused by the injury.
✔✔Nominal damages - ✔✔Damages in name only; awarded when the jury believes the
plaintiff's rights were violated.
✔✔Punitive damages - ✔✔Damages intended to punish the defendant for their act and
to warn others from doing the same act.
✔✔Consensual encounter - ✔✔Occurs when you have voluntary contact with a person
and they are free to go at any time.
✔✔Investigative stop - ✔✔A stop made by an officer only if they have reasonable
suspicion that the person stopped was committing, is committing, or is about to commit
a law violation.
