Test A (first test) Flashcards
What is the progression of legal authority
social contact, terry stop, probable cause.
- Probable cause
facts and circumstances with in the officers knowledge that are sufficient to cause a person of reasonable caution to believe that a crime may have been committed
Reasonable suspicion:
- reasonable articulable suspicion IE a substantial probability that criminal activity has occurred or will occur.
- State V. Byrd
the authority to search a arrestee’s person and personal effects. (we are able to search a purse and backpack if it is part of the “person” aka worn
- IF the misdemeanor is not listed in rcw 10.31.100 and did not occur in your presence you cannot make a custodial arrest
- Three things for almost every crime:
1) Mental state,
2) Act,
3) harm
- Five basic premises of criminal law
1) Act or omission
2) Mental State
3) Concurrence
4) Causation
5) All laws must be written to put people in notice
- Any felony committed by a public officer the statue of limitation is?
10 years
- No gross misdemeanor may be prosecuted after
2 years from the event
A ruse is fine as long as it does not what?
- shock the concise
- Example: “come outside there is pizza” VS “come outside your mother is dying”
- The two prong test for officers and qualified immunity
1) The officer did not violate a constitutional right
2) The constitutional right alleged to be violated was not “clearly established” at the time of the incident.
- Attempt to commit a crime steps:
Intent to commit the crime, a substantial act to commit the crime
- Accomplice liability is
when you aid the person in anyway in committing a crime.
- Criminal solicitation
: Intent to promote or facilitate a crime with an offer of money or thing of value.
- Conspiracy
intent to commit a crime when two or more people agree to commit a crime WITH a substantial step (furtherance of the agreement) .
- Criminal attempt
Intent to commit a crime + substantial step toward committing the crime + an attempt to commit a crime
- Custodial Assault
Assault + on-duty corrections officer or staff
- Necessary:
means that no reasonably effective alternative to the use of force appeared to exist and that the amount of force used was reasonable to affect the lawful purpose intended
- Graham Factors:
- The severity of the crime at issue
- Whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the saftey of the officers or others
- Whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight
- Force is only necessary if
there are no reasonably effective alternatives
- After a use of force
: Provide or facilitate first aid at the earliest safe opportunity WHEN the scene is controlled by law enforcement
- Compression asphyxia
: mechanically limiting expansion of the lungs through compression of the chest
- Positional asphyxia
a person being placed in a body position which compresses their airway and does not allow them to breath
- Deadly force includes
1) Impact weapons strikes to the head, neck, throat, or spine
2) striking a person’s head onto a hard, fixed object
3) Discharge of a firearm
4) Intentionally striking with a vehicle
- LEO goals for DV
1) STOP—-the immediate violence
2) REMOVE—-the abuser
3) PROVIDE—-the victim with written resources
- Mandatory actions during DV for a LEO
1) Fully investigate
2) Enforce court orders
3) Write and submit a report
4) Exercise arrest powers
5) Provide resource information
6) Temporarily seize firearms
- Profiling
: the act of suspecting or targeting a person on the basis of observed characteristics or behavior