TLETA Week 2 Exam with correct Answers

TLETA Week 2 Exam with correct Answers Where does the rule of thumb come from? - Answer ️️ -in the 1700's, there was English common law decreeing a husband could chastise his wife with a whip no bigger than his thumb Who and when stated that wives charging husbands with criminal assault and battery must suffer more injuries than commonly needed for charges of battery? - Answer ️️ -California Penal Code, 1977 "A person does not commit rape/sexual battery if the victim is the legal spouse of the perpetrator..." = ? - Answer ️️ -limited spousal exclusion (no longer a thing) What ended the limited spousal exclusion? When? - Answer ️️ -Spousal Rape Charges, 1989 _____ of domestic violence cases are misdemeanors. - Answer ️️ -90% Domestic Violence: Name the 6 most common areas of office liability. - Answer ️️ -1. failure to take proper actions to protect a citizen, 2. failure to appropriately enforce a court order protecting a victim of domestic abuse, 3. failure to respond at all or in a timely manner, 4. failure to provide info to a victim as required by law, 5. arresting a citizen without establishing probable cause, 6. exhibiting a pattern of differential treatment or application of the law to domestic violence cases A person commits _____ who: intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another. - Answer ️️ -assault A person commits _____ who: intentionally, knowingly causes another to reasonably fear imminent bodily injury. - Answer ️️ -assault A person commits _____ who: intentionally or knowingly causes physical contact with another and a reasonable person would regard the contact as extremely offensive or provocative. - Answer ️️ -assault