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Common Law
100

What is the hierarchy of mens rea for MPC?

What is 

Purposely;

Knowingly;

Recklessly;

Negligently

100

I took it, but didn't know it wasn't mine at the time.

What is Mistake of Fact

100

What are the two kinds of actus reas?

What is Act and Omission

100

What does SCARFBAFFLE stand for? 

What is Solicitation, Conspiracy, Attempt, Robbery, Forgery, Burglary, Assault, First Degree Murder, False Pretenses, Larceny, Embezzlement 

100

What is the hierarchy of mens rea for Common Law?

What is 

Specific Intent;

General Intent;

Malice;

Strict Liability

200

What is Robbery? 

What is IF in the course of committing a theft, a person: 

(1) inflicts serious bodily injury 

(2) commits or threatens to commit a felony 


200

Not a defense, except perhaps to show that the defendant could not have formed the intent element of the crime.

What is Voluntary Intoxication

200

What is a crime that does not require proof of a mental state? 

What is strict liability

200

In 1983, this video game company released a classic arcade game that was famous for its risk-reward mechanics involving invincibility and collecting fruit.

What is Pac-Man

200

This legal doctrine, under common law, holds that a killing resulting from a defendant’s reckless indifference to human life can be classified as this, even if the defendant did not intend to kill the victim.

What is Depraved Heart Murder

300

What is the MPC replacement for heat of passion?

What is EMED (extreme mental and emotional distress) 

300

Under common law, this defense allows a person to be excused from criminal liability for their actions if they lacked the capacity to form mens rea due to a severe mental disease or defect, but only if the person could not appreciate the nature of their actions.

What is the M'Naghten Rule (or insanity defense under the M'Naghten Standard)

300

What are the theories of punishment?

What is

Deterrence- Specific and general;

incapacitation (isolation);

Rehabilitation;

Retribution

300

List 5 Strict Liability offenses. 

What is Speeding, Underage drinking, Parking in a Handicap spot, drug use, driving while intoxicated, driving without a seatbelt, etc. 

300

Under common law, this inchoate crime requires an individual to both intend to commit a crime and take a substantial step toward its commission, but the crime must still be completed for the defendant to be fully liable.

What is Attempt

400

What is the rule for insanity under MPC?

What is the actor at the time of the conduct as a result of a mental disease or defect lacks substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.

400

This legal doctrine, under common law, holds that a killing resulting from a defendant’s reckless indifference to human life can be classified as this, even if the defendant did not intend to kill the victim.

What is

M'Naghten, Irresistible Impulse and the Durham Test

400

When is there a duty to act?

What is Generally NONE! Unless someone is in danger and there is 1)special relationship, or 2) contractual obligation, or 3) defendant voluntarily assumes responsibility for the events

400

Canberra is the capital of this country.

What is Australia

400

Under common law, this crime differs from larceny because it involves the wrongful possession of someone else's property, but with the intent to return the property to its rightful owner in the future, and it usually applies to property taken without force or deceit.

What is Embezzlement 
500

What is the definition of negligence?

What is 1) should know, 2)substantial risk, 3)unjustifiable risk, 4) gross deviation from a reasonable standard

500

What is duress caused by?

What is human forces 

500

What are the intervening cause factors?

What is foreseeability, free deliberate and informed human intervention, omission, intentional consequence

500

This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.

What is the Louisiana Purchase

500

What are the four types of possible liability for an accomplice under CL?

principals in the first degree (people who actually do the act;

principals in the second degree (people who aid, command, or encourage the principal and are present at the crime);

accessories before the fact (persons who aid, abet, or encourage but are not present at the crime);

accessories after the fact (persons who assist the principal after the crime).

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