NYPD 2ND TRIMESTER REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Defense Types. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Justification, Infancy, 99%/Mental Disease&Defect, Entrapment
51%
Infancy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Occurs when a defendant is actively induced, encouraged, or lured
by a public servant to commit an illegal act.
Elements of an offense - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A change of attempt to commit a crime will reduce
the charge by one class.
ex: Class A felony to Class B Felony.
Attempt - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Engages in conduct which tends to effect the commission of such
crime.
Forcible Touching (M) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Knowingly give victim
substance without consent.
,Intent to commit felony sex offense.
Lack of consent. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅forbid conduct that causes or threatens to cause
harm.
Intent
and
Motive - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the determination to an act
the desire to make you want to do a criminal act.
4 culpable mental states. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅aware of and disregards risk
Defense Types. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Justification, Infancy, 99%/Mental Disease&Defect, Entrapment
51%
Infancy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Occurs when a defendant is actively induced, encouraged, or lured
by a public servant to commit an illegal act.
Elements of an offense - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A change of attempt to commit a crime will reduce
the charge by one class.
ex: Class A felony to Class B Felony.
Attempt - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Engages in conduct which tends to effect the commission of such
crime.
Forcible Touching (M) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Knowingly give victim
substance without consent.
,Intent to commit felony sex offense.
Lack of consent. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅forbid conduct that causes or threatens to cause
harm.
Intent
and
Motive - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the determination to an act
the desire to make you want to do a criminal act.
4 culpable mental states. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅aware of and disregards risk
