Criminal Law
Criminal charges are brought by this
What is the state?
Failure to exercise due care
What is negligence?
What type of liability establishes when you can be criminally liable for someone else's conduct?
What is Complicity?
An offense against society
What is Crime?
Legal impossibility is
what is a defense to attempt liability?
According to what rule is even present at the scene of a crime followed by flight, not enough action to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability?
The Mere Presence Rule
The Burden of proof in the United States
What is proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
When the police are about to ask the suspect incriminating questions
What is the Miranda Rights?
The amendment that gives us the right to be free from double jeopardy and self-incrimination
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Crimes for which you serve less than 1 year in jail
What is a misdemeanor?
Victimless Crimes
What is mall prohibita crimes?
How many people are typically on a trial jury
What is 12?
Criminal Intent
What is Mens Rea?
Liability based on ownership or operation of a business may be specifically imposed by
what is statue?
The purposeful burning of another person's property
What is arson?
Which crime could result in the death penalty
What is First Degree Murder
A defence in which a defendant admits he or she is responsibe for the act but claims that under the circumstnaces the act was not criminal.
What is a non-criminal homicide?
All of these are a homicide but not all homicides are these
What is murder/manslaughter
Someone held against their will and transported to another location
What is kidnapping
Unlawful taking and carrying of another's personal property, with intent to permanently deprive the rightful owner of its possession
What is larceny?
An appearence before a judge when advised of rights and charges, enter a plea and have conditions of release set
What is an Arraignment?
A defense in which defendants admit that what they did was wrong but argue that they were put in an impossible postion and had to it to survive.
What is extreme duress?
A defense used when a police officer forces you to commit a crime
What is entrapment?
What dramatically changed the nature of corporations from government entities controlled by government to private businesses operated by internal management?
The Industrial Revolution
The constitutional amendment that bars "cruel and unusual punishments".
What is the Eighth Amendment?