TOMPSC SCCJA Cumulative Exam Study Guide 2024 (Verified Answers).

TOMPSC SCCJA Cumulative Exam Study Guide 2024 (Verified Answers). 1. 1st Amendment: Amendment that dealt with freedom of speech 2. 4th Amendment: Search and seizure 3. 5th Amendment: The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy 4. 6th Amendment: Right to a speedy and public trial 5. 14th Amendment: Due Process 6. Executive, Legislative, Judicial: Three Branches 7. Executive Branch: Enforces laws 8. Legislative Branch: Makes laws 9. Judicial Branch: Interprets the laws 10. Supreme Court: Article III of Constitution. Court of last resort. Judicial review. President nominates all justices, including position of Chief Justice, and they must be confirmed by a majority of the senate. 9 justices. Receive and dispose of approximately 5,000 cases a year, and grant certiorari to about 150 cases. Term begins the first Monday of October and ends in late June or early July. 11. Due Process: No law will be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious and the means selected to enforce that law shall have reasonable and substantial relation to the object being sought to be achieved by that law or process 12. Fighting words: Words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace 13. Intoxication, threats, physical interference: Forms of speech that are not protected TOMPSC SCCJA Cumulative Exam Study Guide 2024 (Verified Answers) 2 / 12 14. Texas v. Johnson: A 1989 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law banning the burning of the American flag on the grounds that such action was symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment. 15. Trial Running: Lost individuals will hastily travel the nearest trail or travel aid 16. Despondent: Persons who are severely depressed individuals or persons contemplating suicide 17. View Enhancement: Type of strategy occurs when the lost person climbs a hill or tree in order to improve or enhance their view of the area 18. 16: SC code of laws pertaining to weapons 19. Any person under the age of 18: Definition of a child 20. Jeb v. Alabama: Case that established the equal protection clause 21. 63: SC Code pertaining to child abuse and juveniles 22. 1996: When was Megans Law passed? 23. 94: How many federal district courts are there? 24. 13: How many circuit courts of appeals are there? 25. Common pleas and general sessions: Two branches of a circuit court? 26. Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire: Court case that established fighting words 27. Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution: 3 phases of rape trauma syndrome 3 / 12 28. 90% of population is right handed, majority don't use holsters: Characteristics of an armed gunman 29. Protrusions, Printing, Weighted hemline, Straps/slings, commercial concealment gear: 5 things you should look for on suspects carrying a weapon 30. Tapping, Grasping, Pressing: What are three security checks officers to look for with a gunman? 31. Failure to make shelter/fire, discarding equipment, disrobing, failure to respond to searches, failure to respond to searches, failure to use travel aids: Abnormal behaviors in lost individuals 32. The Jury is sworn in: Double jeopardy attaches to a jury trial when? 33. 1st witness is sworn in: Double jeopardy attaches to a bench trial when? 34. Child Abuse and Neglect: Occurs when the parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the child's welfare inflicts upon a child physical or mental injury or engages in acts or omissions which present a substantial risk of physical or mental injury to the child 35. Family: A spouse, child, parent, sibling, any person who regularly resides 36. Household member: A spouse, former spouse, persons with child in common, someone who has or formerly has cohabitation 37. Going from family to general sessions: What is transfer of jurisdiction 38. Situational Child Molester: Does not have sexual preference for children but will engage in sex with a child for complex reasons 39. Preferential Child Molester: Has a sexual preference for children.