Mens Rea
Parties to a Crime
Attempt
Conspiracy and Solicitation
Miscellaneous
100
An intent to accomplish a specific criminal result
What is specific intent?
100
At common law, parties to a crime were divided into these two groups
What are principals and accessories?
100
An attempt that occurs when an individual take every act required to commit a crime and yet fails to succeed.
What is a complete attempt?
100
A form of conspiracy that involves single person or a group that serves as a hub connecting various, independent individuals or groups.
What is circle or wheel conspiracy?
100
When analyzing recklessness or negligence the standard used to determine whether an individual’s conduct varies from that expected of the general public.
What is the objective standard?
200
Requirement that the criminal intent and act(s) must come together in time
What is [chronological] concurrence?
200
The doctrine provides that a person encouraging or facilitating the commission of a crime will be held liable as an accomplice for the crime he or she aided and abetted as well as for the crimes that are a likely and feasible outcome of the criminal conduct.
What is the natural and probable consequences doctrine?
200
An attempt that occurs when an individual abandons or is prevented from the crime due to the arrival of the police or as a result of some other event outside his or her control.
What is an incomplete attempt?
200
An agreement to commit a crime and an overt act in furtherance of the agreement
What is the actus reus of conspiracy?
200
The test that follows an objective approach and provides that an attempt occurs when an act is “very near” the completion of a crime.
What is the physical proximity test?
300
The type of cause requires you to ask whether “but for” the defendant’s act, the victim would not have died.
What is factual cause?
300
The rule that provides that being present and watching the commission of a crime is not sufficient to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability
What is the mere presence rule?
300
The legal approach to establishing the elements of attempt that requires an act that comes extremely close to the commission of the crime.
What is the objective approach?
300
Crimes that declare that individuals can be convicted and punished for intent to commit a crime when accompanied by a significant step toward the commission of the offense are called
What are inchoate crimes?
300
Complete and voluntary renunciation of a criminal act
What is the defense of abandonment?
400
Intervening acts arise when a defendant’s act places a victim in a particular place where the victim is harmed by an unforeseeable event
What are coincidental intervening acts?
400
Liability imposed on a person for acts committed by another person
What is vicarious liability?
400
The legal tests for establishing the actus reus of attempt?
What are the physical proximity, unequivocality and MPC (substantial step) tests?
400
When the solicitor engages the individual to carry out the criminal act, whether the act is completed or not
What is an offense of solicitation?
400
Mistake that is not a legal defense to attempt
What is factual impossibility?
500
When considering intervening causes, the factor that determines whether a defendant would be liable
What is foreseeability?
500
An exception to the mere presence rule, where liability can be imposed for merely being present during the commission of a crime
What is when there is a duty to intervene?
500
When an individual mistakenly believes that he or she is acting illegally.
What is legal impossibility?
500
Commanding, hiring, or encouraging another person to commit a crime.
What is the actus reus of solicitation?
500
Awareness of and disregard for the substantial and unjustifiable risk
What is reckless intent?
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