Chapter 7
What is a separate offense accessory?
Misdemeanor
Criminal liability is imposed on accomplices and accessories because they
participated in the crimes.
In the majority of states, duress is not a defense for
murder.
A defense in which the defendant admits the act but claims that, under the circumstances, they aren’t legally responsible is called
excuse.
Vicarious
Liability based on ownership or operation of a business may be specifically imposed by
statute
The defense of insanity excuses criminal liability when it seriously damages defendants’ capacity to control their acts and/or capacity to reason and
understand the wrongfulness of their conduct.
At the heart of the choice-of-evils defense is the necessity to prevent what kind of danger?
imminent danger
Mere presence of the defendant at the scene of a crime may create accomplice liability if
the defendant has a duty to prevent the crime and fails to prevent or attempt to prevent it.
Most vicarious liability involves which of the following relationships?
Business
The objective test of entrapment focuses on
the actions of police.
In many jurisdictions, affirmative defenses typically have to be proven by the defendant
by a preponderance of the evidence.
Parent responsibility statutes are based on parents’ acts and
What dramatically changed the nature of corporations from government entities controlled by government to private business operated by internal management?
the industrial revolution
Under the M’Naghten test of insanity, the defendant is legally insane at the time of the crime if, because of a mental disease or defect, he did not know that what he was doing was wrong or did not know
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the nature and quality of the act.
Most defenses are perfect defenses; if they’re successful, defendants are
acquitted.
Participants before and during the commission of crimes are
guilty of the crime itself.
What type of liability establishes when you can be criminally liable for someone else’s conduct?
complicity
Which test focuses on criminal acts resulting from mental disease?
product-of-mental-illness
The castle exception is an exception to what doctrine?
the retreat doctrine