Miscellaneous
Private wrongs that you can sue the party that wronged you to recover money.
What is a tort?
Crimes that are punishable from one year to life without the possibility of parole.
What is a felony?
The use of punishment to prevent or reduce future crimes.
What is deterrence?
The idea that government power should be defined and limited by laws.
What is the rule of law?
This amendment bans the use of "cruel and unusual" punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
Latin term for the voluntary criminal act.
What is actus reus?
Latin term for criminal intent.
What is mens rea?
Latin term for "body of the crime."
What is corpus delicti?
The legal duty to help or call for help for imperiled strangers.
What is the Good Samaritan doctrine?
Posession of drugs or illegal materials that you are unaware of.
What is mere possesion?
Something that causes or drives a person to act.
What is a motive?
When defendants admit that the act was wrong but that they were not responsible for their actions.
What is an excuse defense?
Element of self-defense that requires the individual to be in immediate danger.
What is the imminence requirement?
What is a civil committment?
Common law states that children have no criminal capacity at what age?
What is 7 years and younger?
When defendants use the excuse that they were forced to do what they did.
What is the defense of duress?
The four elements of the defense of duress.
What is the nature of the threat, the immediacy of the threats, the crimes the defense applies to, and the level of belief regarding the threat?
Excuse that argues government agents got people to commit crimes they would not otherwise commit.
What is entrapment?
The agreement to commit some other crime.
What is a conspiracy?
The crime of conspiracy and the crime the conspirators agree to commit are separate offenses.
What is the Pinkerton rule?
Other than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
What is the Apprendi rule?
Crimes include a voluntary act, the mental element, the circumstantial elements, causation, and criminal harm.
What are bad result crimes?
What was the case where the defendant was convicted of purposely exposing his partners to HIV?
What is the State v. Stark case in 1992?
The term that defines an act where a crime was initiated but not completely executed as originally intended.
What is an inchoate crime?
If a mother were to try to bribe her child into murdering his father, this would be what type of offense?
What is a solicitation offense?