Mens Rea
The mental element of a person's intention to commit a crime.
What is Mens Rea?
Something people suffer with that can lead them to do involuntary acts.
What is Medical/Mental condition?
Tells people what they must or must not do.
What is laws?
Murder is known as this serious type of crime.
The willful and unlawful use of force upon a person.
What is battery?
The state of your mind when you commit a crime.
What is General Intent?
To possess something that can be a criminal act.
What is unlawful possession?
To deter someone or something from doing something.
What is punishment?
First degree murder usually requires ____ and deliberation.
What is premeditation?
Battery, but without the requirement of contact.
What is assault?
Possession of Eagle feathers violates this act.
What is the Migratory Bird Act?
When you have the legal responsibility to take care of a child.
What is loco parentis?
A rule or law that is made by the government.
What is statutes?
The crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought while the total damage does not result in murder.
What is manslaughter?
In some states body parts can be considered __?
What are dangerous weapons?
When one person has premediated intent to kill a person, but ends up killing someone else.
What is Transferred Intent?
Failing to act in the face of legal duty.
What is creating peril?
The collection of past legal decisions made by courts.
What is case law?
When a person is injured by an assailant and survived beyond a year and one day.
What is the Year and a Day rule?
The two types of Assault.
What is Attempted Battery and Placing one in fear?
Dealt with the issue of whether a person can form a specific intent to commit an attempt of what would be a general intent crime.
What is Reilly v. State?
Defines an act or action as a bodily movement whenever it was involuntary or voluntary.
What is Volitional Act Requirement?
Designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures.
What is Model Penal Code?
The malice aforethought and a mental state that makes a criminal liable for the crime of murder.
What is express malice?
Ruled that "Great Bodily Injury" and "Serious Bodily Injury" are different.
What is People v. Santana?