Murder
Criminal Law Terms
Defenses
Assault and Rape
Property
100
The unlawful and unjustified killing of another human being which is perdetermined and intentional.
What is murder?
100
When a person is charged for the same exact crime twice.
What is double jeopardy?
100
May result in a lesser charge for the defendant.
What is defense?
100
The unlawful attempt or threat to inflict immediate harm or death to another.
What is assault?
100
The breaking and entering of a building without consent and with intent to commit a felony.
What is burglary?
200
The act of planning, deliberate, designing, or thinking out in advance with intention to kill another person.
What is premediated?
200
The attorney who represents the state in a criminal case.
What is prosecutor, prosecuting attorney?
200
When the ators of a crime claim thta the would not have committed the crime had they had knowledge of the law or facts.
What is mistake?
200
Name two of the three elements for forciable rape and sodomy.
What is female gender, penetration, lack of consent?
200
The misapporopriating or misapplying property or money that was already entrusted to an individual.
What is embezzlement?
300
The killing that is intentional but carries no evil intent and is permitted by law such as when a police man shots an armed robber.
What is justifiable homicide?
300
A penalty or punishment may not be inflicted just because the act is considered to be harmful to society.
What is sanction?
300
Under the insanity defense there is one famous test that is given to prove weather the defendant is sane or insane.
What is M'Naghten rule?
300
When one forces sexual intercourse on a spouse.
What is marital rape?
300
Forging, copying, or imitating without authority and with intent to defraud.
What is counterfeiting?
400
An unintended death resulting from the commission of a felony.
What is felony murder?
400
The appellate courts may interpret the acts and events that occur in the other two branches as well as in the lower courts.
What is judicial review?
400
A condition in whch an individual is coerced or induced by teh wrongful act of another to commit a crimianl act.
What is duress?
400
Unauthorizied harmful or offensive touching of another.
What is battery?
400
Obtaining the title to property by falsly representing facts to the owner with the intent to defraud.
What is false pretense?
500
When a reasonable person would not have cooled off between the time of provocaation and thee killing and the defendant did not cool off.
What is heat-of-passion manslaughter?
500
A legislative act which inflicts punishnment without a judicial trial.
What is bill of attainder?
500
An assumption of a fact based from other facts, it is not a fact but an inference from a fact.
What is presumption?
500
The permanent injury inflicted on a victim with the intent to injure and which may disable or disfigure that person.
What is mayhem?
500
A legal doctrine that refers to the condition of havign the power to control an item along with the intent to do so.
What is constructive possession?
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