Chapter 1
A sentence of one year or more in prison.
What is hard punishment?
Actions that communicate ideas and feelings.
What is expressive conduct?
Requirement that all crimes have to include a voluntary act.
What is actus reus?
Liability that does not require subjective or objective fault.
What is strict liability?
If successful, defendants are acquitted.
What is a perfect defense?
Crimes that require some level of criminal intent.
What is mala in se?
Irreverence toward scared things.
What is profanity?
Material element of a crime.
What is mens rea?
Applies only to bad result crimes.
What is specific intent?
Convince fact finders that defendants don't deserve maximum penalty.
What are mitigating circumstances?
The clear leader in world imprisonment rates.
What is the United States?
Right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
Crimes that include a voluntary act, mental element, circumstantial elements, causation, and criminal harm.
What is a bad result crime?
Mental state that is most blameworthy.
What is purposely?
Voluntarily agreeing to crimes against self and knowing what they are agreeing to.
What is defense of consent?
Inflicting on offenders physical and psychological pain to pay for crimes.
What are retributionists?
Highest burden of proof in U.S. Criminal Justice System.
What is proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
What is manifest criminality?
Two other names for factual cause.
What is "but for" and "cause in fact"?
Immediate area surrounding a home.
What is a curtilage?
The period of confinement should be sufficient but not greater than necessary to achieve the goals of sentencing policy.
What is parsimony?
This case dealt with indecency, immodest and filthy acts in 1982.
What is State v. Metzger?
Unconscious bodily movement.
What is automatism?
Presumption defendant knew the law they were breaking.
What is ignorance maxim?
Rule where there's no need to retreat and are allowed to use deadly force to fend off unprovoked attack at home.
What is the castle exception?