Grab bag
Almost all criminal convictions in the United States occur this way, instead of through trial.
What is plea bargaining?
This person assisted the offender before or during a crime and generally faces the same criminal consequences.
What is an accomplice?
An otherwise criminal action believed to be necessary to prevent a harm, where the harm prevented is worse than the legal alternative.
What is the defense of necessity?
This crime was traditionally defined as killing with malice aforethought.
What is common law murder?
Draco committed this crime when he pushed Potter down the stairs.
What is battery?
This is a good thing to say if a police officer asks to search your person, your possessions or your vehicle.
What is: I do not consent to searches?
What is vicarious liability?
When at the time of an act a person did not know the quality and nature of the act or did not know that the act was wrong.
What is the M'naghten test for the insanity defense?
According to this common law doctrine, a woman's legal rights were "covered" under those of her father or husband.
What is coverture?
Draco committed this crime when he and a partner robbed Gringott's bank and his partner zapped a teller with a destruction spell (that killed the teller)
What is felony murder?
This crime that was originally intended to protect African Americans from vigilante mobs was recently used to prosecute a Black Lives Matter protester in California.
What is lynching?
This offense occurs when a person fails to complete the crime.
What is attempt?
When a person acts under threat of an imminent harm by another that causes the person to commit a crime.
What is duress?
This crime was originally defined as the forceable abduction of a person from his or her own country and sending him or her to another country.
What is common law kidnapping?
Draco committed this crime when he took a swing at Potter and missed.
What is assault?
This is something you can say if a police officer is talking to you and you don't want to talk to them.
What is: are you detaining me or am I free to go?
This crime consists of commanding, hiring or encouraging another person to commit an offense.
What is solicitation?
When a person claims that they could not form an intent because they were involuntarily under the influence of a substance.
What is the involuntary intoxication defense?
Rules such as the corroboration rule the requirement of immediate complaint made it extremely hard for victim's of this crime to prove their cases.
What is rape?
Draco committed this crime when he refused to let Potter leave the classroom.
What is false imprisonment?
This court in the Netherlands that applies international criminal law was established under the Rome Statute.
What is the International Criminal Court?
This crime is actually an agreement by two or more people to commit a crime.
What is a conspiracy?
Action taken based on reasonable belief in the immediate necessity to employ proportional force to protect against unlawful force.
What is self defense?
At common law this offense could only be prosecuted if the victim died within a year and a day.
What is common law murder?
Draco committed this crime when he tried to kill potter but did not succeed.
What is attempted murder?