The asking, inciting, ordering, urgently requesting, or enticing of another person to commit a crime.
Solicitation
100
Agreeing with another to join together for the purpose of committing an unlawful act or agreeing to use unlawful means to commit an act that would otherwise be lawful.
Conspiracy
100
__________ defenses are those that the defendant raises apart from denial.
Affirmative
100
The purpose of a defense is to produce an ___________ or a reduced charge.
Acquittal
200
A crime that may be defined as an act involving two basic elements: a step toward the commission of a crime and a specific intent to commit that crime.
Attempt
200
One who—knowing that a felony has been committed— receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon to hinder apprehension and conviction.
Accessory after the fact
200
In federal court, the insanity defense is an affirmative defense and the defendant’s burden is:
Clear and convincing
200
The usual standard or burden of proof required to receive a jury instruction upon an affirmative defense is:
Preponderance of the evidence
300
One who perpetrates the crime either through his or her own acts or by the use of inanimate objects or innocent people.
Principal in the first degree
300
Crimes that are imperfect or uncompleted and that may lead to other crimes. For example, an attempt to commit rape may lead to rape, but even if it does not, the attempt is a crime.
Inchoate crimes
300
A defendant who is allegedly unaware of the side effects of a prescription drug might use which of the following defenses?
involuntary intoxication
300
The traditional, most frequently used insanity test, or the right-versus-wrong test, is the:
M’Naghten rule
400
A rule stating that a co-conspirator may be held accountable for the acts of fellow conspirators, even though the requirements of liability for the acts of accomplices are not met.
Pinkerton rule
400
Defense providing that even if the defendant’s intentions—for example, to commit an attempt crime—were fully performed or set in motion, a crime would not have been committed.
Legal impossibility
400
_____________ may be a defense to less serious acts, such as those that might occur in a lawful sports activity, in which a person might be hurt by the nature of the game.
Consent
400
In order to use __________________, the threatened harm must be imminent and unlawful and the actor must not have provoked the attack.
Self-defense
500
Generally speaking, the preparation by a single person to commit a crime is not in and of itself a criminal act.
True
500
A person who incites or abets the commission of a crime and is present actually or constructively is considered to be a(n):
Principal in the second degree
500
A _____________ presumption is one that is subject to being refuted by evidence.
Rebuttable
500
In most cases, which defense involves the coercive forces of nature rather than the coercive forces of human beings to be involved?