Chapter One
City, town, and village governments do not enjoy broad powers to create criminal laws.
What is False?
Trial without a jury is called:
What is a bench trial
A legal fiction turns what into an act, although it is really a passive state.
What is possession?
Factual cause is also known as which of the following?
What is but for cause?
What is the default degree of culpability where codes fail to identify a level of culpability?
What is recklessness?
In the citation 319 S.W, 2d 459, the number 459 represents the
What is the page where the opinion begins in A Volume?
Eighth Amendment requires that punishments be proportional to the crime.
What is true?
There is no criminal conduct, there is no criminal.
Ignorance of facts and law creates a reasonable doubt that the prosecution has proved the element of criminal intent.
What is can?
An offense that is punishable by one year or more in a state prison is called a
What is a felony?
To obtain a conviction, the prosecution must prove every element of the offense
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
Specific law defining a crime and setting out the punishment before a person can be punished for that crime.
What is Legality
Most offenses that don’t require a mens rea do include which of the following.
What is the attendant circumstances element?
In the Model Penal Code, the most blameworthy state of mind is
What is purposely?
What is the only direct evidence of a defendant’s mens rea?
What is a confession?
Retributionists assume that
What is justice best served by sending convicted offenders to prison?
U.S. Supreme Court took a “hands off” approach to sentencing procedures until what case?
What is Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000)?
What type of possession is it where one has physical control of banned stuff?
What is actual possession?
In strict liability cases, the prosecution has to prove only that defendants committed a
What is a voluntary criminal act that caused harm?
If an appellate court affirms the decision of the court immediately below, this means that the lower court’s decision is
What is upheld?
The assumption underlying rehabilitation theory is that
What forces beyond an offender’s control cause them to commit crimes, and can experts using the correct therapy reform criminals?
Equal protection does not require that:
What is everyone, or even all criminals, treated exactly alike?
What modern phrase comes from the ancient idea of manifest criminality?
What is caught red-handed?
The mental element of a crime is called the
What is mens rea?
The assumption underlying rehabilitation theory is that
What are the Forces beyond offenders’ control that cause them to commit crimes, and can experts using the correct therapy reform them?