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Establishes when you can be criminally liable for someone else's conduct.
Complicity
The crime of conspiracy and the crime of conspirators agree to commit are separate offenses.
Pinkerton Rule
Concentrates on how fully defendants have developed their intent to commit their crime.
Dangerous Person Rationale
A "stroke of luck", namely a circumstance beyond the attempter's control that prevents the completion of the crime.
Extraneous Factor
The crime of trying to get someone else to commit a crime.
Solictation
Establishes when a party can be criminally liable for someone else's conduct because of a relationship.
Vicarious Liability
Trying but failing to commit crimes.
Criminal Attempts
A single statute that applies to the attempt to commit any crime in the state's criminal code.
General Attempt Statute
Voluntary Abandonment
Crime of killing a fetus.
Feticide
Participants before and during the commission of crimes.
Accomplices
Trying to get someone else to commit a crime.
Criminal Solicitation
Attempt actus reus requires all but the last act needed to complete the crime.
Last Act Rule
The requirement of an act that furthers the agreements in conspiracy.
Overt Act Requirement
The rule that to be a person, and therefore a homicide victim, a baby had to be " born alive" and capable of breathing and maintaining a heartbeat on its own.
Born-Alive Rule
Participants after the crimes are committed.
Accessories
From the Latin term "to begin"; crimes that satisfy the mens rea of purpose or specific intent and the actus reus of taking some steps toward accomplishing the criminal purpose, but not enough to complete the intended crime.
Inchoate Offenses
Help courts decide when defendants' acts have taken them further than just getting ready to attempt and brought them close enough to completing crimes to qualify as attempt actus reus.
Proximity Tests
The criminal goal of an agreement to commit a crime.
Criminal Objective
Killing a person with "malice aforethought".
Murder
An agreement to commit some other crime.
Conspiracy
Looks at how close defendants came to completing their crimes.
Dangerous Act Rationale
Occurs when actors intend to commit crimes, and do everything they can to carry out their criminal intent, but the criminal law doesn't ban what they did.
Legal Impossibility
Just about any form of human endeavor.
Enterprise
Killing a person in self-defense.
Justifiable Homicide