Crimes
This category of crimes have permanent consequences.
Felonies
An attempt to commit a battery, or the intentional placing of another in apprehension of receiving an immediate battery.
Assault
The intentional or unintentional act of providing information that will suggest your involvement in a crime, or expose you to criminal prosecution
Self-incrimination
The body of law that defines conduct perceived as threatening to, harmful to, or otherwise endangering the property, health, safety, and welfare of people.
Criminal Law
Sentences run one after another.
Consecutive
With intent to commit an offense, does an act that is more than mere preparation which fails to effect the commission of the crime.
Attempt
A legal term that means that a particular record or records are sealed.
Expungement
Questions or actions that will elicit a self incriminating response.
Interrogatory
A written communication, such as a newspaper article, that is false and damages a person’s reputation.
Libel
Seizure of assets, used in or obtained from illegal activity, by the government
Asset Forfeiture
Every person who counsels or aids another in the commission of such act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Aiding
He agrees with one/more persons to engage in the offense AND He/another performs an overt act in pursuance.
Conspiracy
The first stage of an interrogation.
Rapport
The term used to describe non-criminal law having to do with private rights and remedies related to property, commerce, and administrative matters.
Civil Law
______________ factors are those that lean towards the minimum punishment.
Mitigating
S/he requests/commands/attempts to induce another to engage in conduct that would constitute the felony.
Solicitation
Any act of physical force, however slight, by which obstructions to entering are removed.
Breaking
Only so much brain power available.
Cognitive load
Occurs when there is harm to one’s reputation because of a statement somebody makes when they knew or should have known the statement was false.
Defamation
Plea bargain where the defendant pleads guilty or no contest in exchange for avoiding a trial and doing an alternative course of action.
Deferred Adjudication
These two things separate 1st and 2nd degree murder.
Premeditation and intent
One who participates either prior to or during the commission of the offense is liable as a principal.
Accessory
3 prongs for a waiver
Voluntary, Knowing, Intelligent
Refers to an action that harms another person or his property.
Tort
Used to refer to the percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested for a similar offense.
Recidivism