Criminal Cases
Settles disputes between people and often seek monetary compensation.
Civil Cases
This means no mental state is required, anyone doing the act is guilty regardless of intent.
Strict Liability
Is an unintentional killing that takes place during a misdemeanor. It can also be caused by criminal negligence.
Involuntary manslaughter
Making a threat with the intent of getting property from another person.
Extortion
What message do hate crimes send
Minorities are unwelcome and unsafe.
The State prosecutes individuals for harming society.
Criminal Cases
This means the person either knew the result would happen or disregarded the extreme likelihood it would happen.
General Intent
Is an intentional killing done without malice aforethought.
Voluntary Manslaughter.
Forcibly stealing from a person by violence or threat of violence
Robbery
Consists of asking, ordering or encouraging another person to commit a crime.
Solicitation
Two sources of criminal law.
Laws passed by legislatures & Common Law
This means a person does something unintentionally but with extreme lack of care.
Criminal Intent
Is a killing done with malice aforethought, but without deliberation or premeditation.
Second degree murder
The unlawful entry into a building with intent to commit a crime (often theft).
Burglary
An agreement between two or more people to commit a crime. It also has an act and intent element.
Conspiracy
Focuses on whether a defendant has committed crime against society and what sentence is appropriate to punish the defendant for the crime.
Criminal Case
This is often the most difficult element to prove
Criminal intent, state of mind
Is any killing done while a person is committing a felony. Murders done while committing more serious felonies are 1st degree murder, others are 2nd degree murder.
Felony murder
Taking someone else’s property without permission, and not intending to give it back. There are two categories of this. What are they?
Larceny
Grand Theft and Petty Theft
Has three elements
1.The person must intend to commit a crime
2. Must take steps towards committing a crime
3. The person must not commit the crime.
Attempt
Subject to change over time
Laws
The person has to intend the act when they commit it
Concurrence of the act and the intent
Is a deliberate and premediated killing done with malice forethought. Need all three
First degree murder
One of the most commonly committed crimes
Stealing
A crime that is incomplete or in its beginning stages.
Inchoate Crime