These crimes do not require a guilty state of mind and are the failure to perform an act required by law.
What is a crime of omission?
100
A society's laws are usually based on these.
What are values?
100
These courts deal with topics like genocide and war crimes?
What is an international court?
100
Jen decided to make fake ID's for her high school friends and was found guilty of this crime.
What is forgery?
100
When defending someone else's life you can use this defense.
What is self-defense?
200
These are actions taken before a crime is committed.
What are preliminary crimes?
200
This is written into the Constitution and states that there is no higher authority than the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
200
It is a good place to start looking if you need a reputable lawyer.
What is the American Bar Association website?
200
If you target a church when committing this crime you will get a much harsher sentence.
What is arson?
200
This type of killing receives no punishment.
What is excusable homicide?
300
This basic principle of the Constitution limits government to the powers provided to it by the people.
What is limited government?
300
This process allows for a law to be ruled as unconstitutional or not.
What is the process of judicial review?
300
Milo took his criminal case to trial court and was found guilty of embezzlement, but his lawyer believes a mistake was made during the trial so they take their case to which kind of court?
What is an appellate court?
300
In order for a crime to have been committed, all of the conditions that make the act unlawful must be fulfilled.
What are elements of crime?
300
After driving drunk, Kit runs over a pedestrian and kills them. She is guilty of this crime.
What is involuntary manslaughter?
400
This excuse says that a person was somewhere else at the time a crime was committed.
What is an alibi?
400
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written by this well-known woman.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
400
You are able to speak freely and honestly with your lawyer because of this practice.
What is attorney-client privilege?
400
This crime involves breaking and entering a building with the intention of committing a crime.
What is burglary?
400
These requirements state you must be 18 years old, a citizen, and a resident of the district.
What are voting requirements?
500
When one state or country asks another to surrender a suspected criminal.
What is extradition?
500
When a court makes a decision on an issue that guides other courts in the future.
What is a precedent?
500
Bill confessed to his lawyer that he had stolen the car and his lawyer shared that confession with the judge. The lawyer then finds himself with this punishment.
What is disbarred?
500
DNA evidence and alibis are used in court to support which type of defense?
What is the defendant did not commit the crime?
500
These are laws that are passed by Congress at the national level.