Chapter 1
Wrong against society (State vs. Jenkins).
What are Crimes?
Limits are placed on the government’s power to
create crimes.
What is Constitutional Democracy?
Actus reus, Mens rea, and Concurrence.
What are Elements of a Crime?
All crimes, except strict liability crimes, require
concurrence.
What is Principle of Concurrence?
Required mental element of a crime.
What is Mens Rea?
Punishable by death or confinement, no less than 1 year.
What is a Felony?
Principle of Legality.
What is Rule of Law?
Evil Act.
What is Actus Reus?
Applies only to crimes of criminal conduct
causing criminal harm.
What is Principle of Causation?
Purposely, Knowledge, Recklessness, Negligence.
What are Mental States?
Punishable by fine or Confinement by less than 1 year.
What is a misdemeanor?
Criminalizes an act that was innocent when it
was committed.
What is Ex Post Facto Laws?
Failure to intervene to prevent injuries/death to
persons or the damage/destruction of property.
What is Omissions?
Boils down to an empirical question of fact.
What is Factual Causation?
Acting on purpose and/or with the conscious
object of causing harm.
What is Purposely/Intentionally?
Inherently evil crimes.
What is Malum In Se?
No state shall deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.
What is Equal Protection?
Awareness of control and Control of items/substances.
What is Possession as an Act?
Coincidental intervening acts and Responsive intervening acts.
What are 2 types of intervening causes?
Acting with a conscious creation of a high risk of
harm.
What is Recklesness?
An eye for an eye.
What is Retribution?
Defendant was convicted of violating a city
ordinance that prohibited any person from
committing any indecent, immodest or filthy act
in the presence of any person.
What is State v. Metzger?
Bodily Movement and Free Will.
What are Acts that qualify as a criminal act?
A legal concept that refers to an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem it to be the cause of that injury.
What is Proximate Cause?
Prosecutor must only prove defendant did the
act.
What is Strict Liability?