Criminal Law
Crimes v Persons
Crimes v Property
Defenses
Investigation
100
Performing all the elements of a crime or taking a "substantial step" toward criminality but failing to achieve the result
What is attempt?
100
The killing of one human being by another
What is homicide?
100
Malicious mischief
What is vandalism?
100
Evidence or claim that the defendant was somewhere else at the time a crime was committed
What is an alibi?
100
Having the reasonable belief that a specific person has committed a crime
What is probable cause?
200
A crime for which the penalty is more than a year in prison
What is a felony?
200
A killing done with malice but without premeditation or deliberation
What is second-degree murder?
200
Unlawful taking and carrying away of the property of another against their will with intent to permanently deprive owner of it
What is larceny?
200
Incapacity to commit a crime due to age
What is infancy?
200
A permissible warrantless seach of an individual by a police officer, sometimes called a pat-down, to check for weapons
What is a "stop-and-frisk?"
300
A crime for which the penalty is less than a year in jail
What is a misdemeanor?
300
Repeatedly following or harassing another and making threats
What is stalking?
300
Taking of property from a person's immediate possession by force or intimidation
What is robbery?
300
This defense may excuse a specific mental state, but lesser or other charges may still apply
What is intoxication?
300
Evidence illegally seized may not be used at trial under this legal principle
What is the exclusionary rule?
400
Ask, command, urge, or advise another to commit a crime
What is solicitation?
400
An attempt or threat to carry out an attack on another
What is assault?
400
Offering a document to someone as genuine that one knows to be a fake, like a fake check
What is uttering?
400
This defense deals with a legal, not a psychological, definition of an incompetent mental state
What is insanity?
400
The right against self incrimination can be found in this authority
What is the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
500
Failing to perform an act required by law
What is a crime of omission?
500
Killing that takes place during the commission of certain crimes
What is felony murder?
500
The unlawful taking of property by someone to whom it was entrusted
What is embezzlement?
500
A claim that law enforcement induced one to commit a crime
What is entrapment?
500
The Fourth Amendment doesn't prohibit all searches, only those that are this
What is "unreasonable?"
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