General Considerations & Crimes of Omission
In criminal cases, the person found to have committed the crime.
What is guilty?
types of preliminary crimes
What is solicitation, attempt, and conspiracy?
Something one does in violation of a law.
What is Crime?
the person who commits a crime
What is a principal?
Less serious crimes with potential punishment of imprisonment for less than a year
What is a Misdemeanor?
Does not equal robbery
What is burglary?
to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously
What is maim?
Crimes do not require a guilty state of mind, regardless of knowledge or intent.
What is Strict Liability Offenses?
someone who helps a person commit a crime
What is an accomplice?
Prosecuted by a state court.
What is assault, drunk driving, disorderly conduct, petty theft, and etc.?
example of crimes of omission.
What is failing to file a tax return & failing to stop when being pulled over by the police?
If you shoot someone with the intent to kill, miss, and only mame them.
What is attempted murder?
Reasons accepted by Sociologists for crime.
What is Poverty, Unemployment, Lack of education, Drug abuse, etc.?
Example of an accomplice
What is a getaway car, keeping lookout, etc.?
more serious crimes with potential punishment of imprisonment for more than year.
What is a Felony?
Failing to act when one has a duty to by law be considered a crime.
What is an ommission?
Certain behaviors take place in preparation for committing a crime
What is an inchoate crime?
Almost all crimes require a guilty state of mind.
What is Mens Rea?
A person who orders a crime or helps a person commit the crime, but was not present during the crime.
What is Accessory before the fact?
Prosecuted by federal courts.
what is mail fraud, failure to pay taxes, espionage?
When a person who committed crime is guilty.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
To ask, command, urge, or advise another person to commit a crime?
What is solicitation?
All crimes require a guilty act
What is Actus Reus?
example of accessory after the fact
What is not charged with the same crimes but has committed other crimes, harboring a fugitive, aiding escape, obstructing justice, etc.?
Not considered crimes, even if a law has been broken.
what is a minor traffic violation?