Chapter 6
The legal term that refers to a mental disease or defect that impairs the reason and/or will to control actions
What is insanity?
This establishes when you can be criminally liable for someone else's conduct.
What is complicity?
This act is when you try but fail to commit crimes.
What is criminal attempt?
This act is the crime of killing a fetus.
What is feticide?
These laws prohibit introducing evidence of victims' past sexual conduct.
What are rape shield laws?
This is also known as the Durham Rule.
What is the product-of-mental illness test?
This is an agreement to commit some other crime.
What is conspiracy?
This is when you try to get someone else to commit a crime.
What is criminal solicitation?
This act is killing a person with "malice aforethought".
This means that the victim honestly feared imminent and serious bodily harm.
What is subjective fear?
This is when the juvenile court gives up its jurisdiction over the case and turns it over to the adult criminal court.
What is waiver to adult criminal court?
This rule says that a person's presence at, and flight from, the scene of a crime aren't enough to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability.
What is the mere presence rule?
This rationale looks at how close defendants came to completing their crimes.
What is the dangerous act rationale?
The only crime today in which the death penalty can be imposed.
What is first-degree murder?
This is where a person has carnal knowledge of a person under the age of consent whether or not accomplished by force.
What is statutory rape?
This excuse argues government agents got people to commit crimes they wouldn't otherwise commit.
What is entrapment?
This doctrine in tort law that says an employer may be liable for the wrong of an employee.
What is respondent superior?
This statute applies to the attempt to commit any crime in the state's criminal code.
What is the general attempt statute?
This rule says unintentional deaths that occur during the commission of some felonies are murder.
What is the felony murder rule?
This is unwanted and unjustified offensive touching.
What is battery?
This test asks whether the intent to commit the crime originated with the defendant.
What is subjective test of entrapment?
This statute is based on parents' acts and omissions
What is parental responsibility statutes?
This test looks at what remains for actors to do before they hurt society by completing the crime.
What is the dangerous proximity tests?
This approach says that the defendant's emotional outrage or passion was reasonable.
What is emotional reasonableness?
These threats are not immediate but based upon the existence of certain conditions that don't presently exist.
What are conditional threats?