Vocabulary
Killing a person with "malice aforethought".
What is murder.
What is a judicial waiver?
When juvenile court judges use their discretion to transfer a juvenile to adult criminal court.
What is an accomplice?
A participant(s) before and during the commission of crimes.
What is an overt act requirement?
What is a felony murder rule?
What are unintentional deaths that occur during the commission of some felonies are murder.
A group of symptoms or signs typical of a disease, disturbance or condition is a what?
What is a syndrome?
Psychologists call it "cognition"; the capacity to tell right from wrong.
What is reason?
Participants after crimes are committed refers to a what?
What is an accessory?
The crime of agreeing with one or more people to commit a crime refers to a what?
What is a conspiracy?
What is voluntary manslaughter?
What is the suddenly and intentionally killing of another person in the heat of anger following the adequate provocation.
What is the criminal goal of an agreement to commit a crime?
What is the criminal objective?
What is the legal term that refers to a mental disease or defect that impairs the reasons and/or will to control actions?
What is insanity?
What is a principle in the second degree?
A person or persons present when the crime is committed and who help commit it. Example being getaway drivers.
An attempt actus reus requires all but the last last act needed to complete the crime is a what?
What is last act rule?
The finding that "the defendant's emotional outrage or passion was reasonable is what.
What is emotional reasonableness?
Define complicity.
Establishes when you can be criminally liable for someone else's conduct; applies criminal liability to accomplices and accessories.
When defendants use the excuse that they were forced to do what they did is a what?
What is defense of duress?
Persons who actually commit the crimes refers to a what?
What is principles in the first degree?
Committing two or more of a huge list of related crimes is a what?
What is a pattern of racketeering activity?
What is the paramour rule?
The common law rule that a husband who caught his wife in the act of adultery had adequate provocation to kill. Today it applies to both parties of a marriage.
What is entrapment?
What is an excuse that argues government agents got people to commit crimes that wouldn't otherwise commit.
What is entrapment?
What is an excuse that argues government agents got people to commit crimes they wouldn't otherwise commit?
What is the Pinkerton rule?
What is the crime of conspiracy and the crime the conspirators agree to commit are separate offenses.
What is solicitation?
The crime of trying to get someone else to commit a crime.
A state can't exercise power over individual members of society except to prevent harm to others is what.
What is presumption of bodily integrity?