SOCE CORE EXAM SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Four levels of legal justification? - ✔✔Mere suspicion, Reasonable suspicion,
Probable Cause, Beyond reasonable doubt
✔✔Elements of a search? - ✔✔Government + Intrusion + ReP
✔✔When is PC required for searches? - ✔✔Plain view, mobile conveyance, destruction
of evidence, fresh pursuit, emergency scene
✔✔When is PC not required for searches? - ✔✔Consent, inventory, admin search,
incident to arrest
✔✔All LE use of force cases are to be judged by objective reasonableness standard
based off 4th amendment? - ✔✔Graham v. Conner
✔✔Allows LE officers to use and force needed to stop fleeing felon? - ✔✔Tennesse v.
Garner
✔✔Body of evidence? - ✔✔Corpus Delicti
✔✔Types of intent? - ✔✔General, specific, transferred, criminal negligence
✔✔Property stolen valued at <$300? - ✔✔Misdemeanor
✔✔Property stolen between $100-$300 from a dwelling or curtilage? - ✔✔Felony
✔✔Property stolen valued at >$300? - ✔✔Grand Theft/Felony
✔✔When is criminal mischief a misdemeanor? - ✔✔Loss of <$1000
✔✔When is criminal mischief a felony? - ✔✔Loss of >$1000
✔✔Maximum age for luring or enticing a child? - ✔✔12yo
✔✔Statue of limitations of 1st Degree Felony? - ✔✔4yrs
✔✔Statue of limitations of 2nd/3rd Degree Felony? - ✔✔3yrs
✔✔Statue of limitations of 1st Degree Misdemeanor? - ✔✔2yrs
✔✔Statue of limitations of 2nd Degree Misdemeanor or non criminal offense? - ✔✔1yr
, ✔✔Creditor is entitled to possession of collateral after default? - ✔✔Writ of Replevin
✔✔Four level of intellectual disability? - ✔✔Mild, moderate, sever, profound
✔✔May appear normal, 10% of the population have this? - ✔✔Moderate intellectual
disability
✔✔May not understand they have done something wrong? - ✔✔Mild intellectual
disability
✔✔May have slow motor skills and under constant supervision? - ✔✔Sever intellectual
disability
✔✔Under constant supervision and may not have developed basic speech? -
✔✔Profound intellectual disability
✔✔Resource to help older people obtain services? - ✔✔FL Elder Helpline 800-96-
ELDER
✔✔Where to report elder abuse? - ✔✔FL Abuse Registry Hotline 800-96-ABUSE
✔✔Aspire to become gang members? - ✔✔Wannabes
✔✔Not officially gang members but accepted to some degree? - ✔✔Associates
✔✔Participating in a probationary period in joining the gang? - ✔✔Prospects
✔✔What does SARA stand for? - ✔✔Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment
✔✔Better understanding of community problems? - ✔✔Scanning
✔✔Determine cause of problem from various sources? - ✔✔Analysis
✔✔Creating a longterm solution and putting them into practice? - ✔✔Response
✔✔Problem is solved or significantly reduced? - ✔✔Assessment
✔✔Illustrates size and relevant information? - ✔✔Scale or identifier
✔✔Relative position of evidence items in the crime scene? - ✔✔Evidence markers
2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Four levels of legal justification? - ✔✔Mere suspicion, Reasonable suspicion,
Probable Cause, Beyond reasonable doubt
✔✔Elements of a search? - ✔✔Government + Intrusion + ReP
✔✔When is PC required for searches? - ✔✔Plain view, mobile conveyance, destruction
of evidence, fresh pursuit, emergency scene
✔✔When is PC not required for searches? - ✔✔Consent, inventory, admin search,
incident to arrest
✔✔All LE use of force cases are to be judged by objective reasonableness standard
based off 4th amendment? - ✔✔Graham v. Conner
✔✔Allows LE officers to use and force needed to stop fleeing felon? - ✔✔Tennesse v.
Garner
✔✔Body of evidence? - ✔✔Corpus Delicti
✔✔Types of intent? - ✔✔General, specific, transferred, criminal negligence
✔✔Property stolen valued at <$300? - ✔✔Misdemeanor
✔✔Property stolen between $100-$300 from a dwelling or curtilage? - ✔✔Felony
✔✔Property stolen valued at >$300? - ✔✔Grand Theft/Felony
✔✔When is criminal mischief a misdemeanor? - ✔✔Loss of <$1000
✔✔When is criminal mischief a felony? - ✔✔Loss of >$1000
✔✔Maximum age for luring or enticing a child? - ✔✔12yo
✔✔Statue of limitations of 1st Degree Felony? - ✔✔4yrs
✔✔Statue of limitations of 2nd/3rd Degree Felony? - ✔✔3yrs
✔✔Statue of limitations of 1st Degree Misdemeanor? - ✔✔2yrs
✔✔Statue of limitations of 2nd Degree Misdemeanor or non criminal offense? - ✔✔1yr
, ✔✔Creditor is entitled to possession of collateral after default? - ✔✔Writ of Replevin
✔✔Four level of intellectual disability? - ✔✔Mild, moderate, sever, profound
✔✔May appear normal, 10% of the population have this? - ✔✔Moderate intellectual
disability
✔✔May not understand they have done something wrong? - ✔✔Mild intellectual
disability
✔✔May have slow motor skills and under constant supervision? - ✔✔Sever intellectual
disability
✔✔Under constant supervision and may not have developed basic speech? -
✔✔Profound intellectual disability
✔✔Resource to help older people obtain services? - ✔✔FL Elder Helpline 800-96-
ELDER
✔✔Where to report elder abuse? - ✔✔FL Abuse Registry Hotline 800-96-ABUSE
✔✔Aspire to become gang members? - ✔✔Wannabes
✔✔Not officially gang members but accepted to some degree? - ✔✔Associates
✔✔Participating in a probationary period in joining the gang? - ✔✔Prospects
✔✔What does SARA stand for? - ✔✔Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment
✔✔Better understanding of community problems? - ✔✔Scanning
✔✔Determine cause of problem from various sources? - ✔✔Analysis
✔✔Creating a longterm solution and putting them into practice? - ✔✔Response
✔✔Problem is solved or significantly reduced? - ✔✔Assessment
✔✔Illustrates size and relevant information? - ✔✔Scale or identifier
✔✔Relative position of evidence items in the crime scene? - ✔✔Evidence markers
