Causation - Intervening Cause
A ________ intervening cause will establish proximate cause if it was unforeseeable and highly abnormal
What is Responsive
The MPC provides _________ to violations and element offenses. It is the exception not the rule.
What is Strict Liability
Mistake of ____ is not a defense.
What is Mistake of Law
*(it can only be a defense when specific intent is an element of the offense, or when defendant relied upon law that was later held to be erroneous)
What are the types of homicide under the MPC?
What is Murder, Manslaughter, and Negligent Homicide
What is the mens rea for voluntary manslaughter under common law?
What is intent to kill
A _______ intervening cause will establish proximate cause if it was unforeseeable.
What is Coincidental
What are the specific intent Mens Rea under the common law and the MPC?
What is "specfic intent, and knowledge" - common
What is "purposefully, and knowingly" - MPC
True or False:
An honest and reasonable mistake is a defense to strict liability crimes.
What is false.
*Mistake is not a defense to strict liability crimes.
What is the mens rea for murder under the common law?
What is the mens rea for involuntary manslaughter under the common law?
Reaching a position of _____________ will end the chain of proximate causation.
What is Apparent Safety
What are the general intent Mens Rea under the common law and MPC?
What is "recklessness, and negligence" - common
What is "gross recklessness, and gross negligence" - MPC
For specific intent mens rea, the nature of the mistake must be _________
What is honest
What is the mens rea for first degree Murder under the MPC?
What is the mens rea for depraved heart murder under the common law?
What is Extreme recklessness
(demonstrates an indifference to human life)
The ____, _________ doctrine breaks the chain of causation when a person voluntarily and knowingly decides to put themselves in danger.
Knowledge must be actual knowledge, but the MPC recognizes ______ ______ as an exception to knowledge.
What is deliberate ignorance
For general intent mens rea, the nature of the mistake must be ________
What is Both Honest and Reasonable
_____ ______ is apparent in three criminal homicide situations: the defendant intends to kill the victim, the defendant intends to cause grievous bodily harm, or the defendant has a depraved heart.
What is Malice Aforethought
What is the mens rea for felony murder under the common law?
What is intent to commit a felony.
The _____ ______ doctrine states that if an intentional wrongdoer gets the result she wanted in the general manner she wanted it, she should not escape criminal responsibility even if an unforseeable event intervened.
What is the Intended Consequences doctrine.
A _______ ________ is when a person intends the natural and probable consequences of his voluntary acts.
What is a Permissive Inference
True or False:
For general intent, if the mistake is honest and unreasonable it can negate the mens rea element.
What is False
*An unreasonable mistake will not negate
The _____ approach to premeditation is the "twinkling of an eye"
What is the Broad approach
In voluntary manslaughter, _________ negates the murder intent.
What is Heat of Passion
(caused by adequate provocation)