Crimes
asking, commanding, urging, or advising another person to commit a crime
What is Solicitation
The person who commits a crime
What is Principal
Evidence that justifies an officer stopping and questioning an individual, sometimes based on a mere hunch
What is Reasonable Suspicion
Children not held to the same legal standards as adults
What is Infancy
An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime
What is Conspiracy
The person who helps the crime be committed
What is Accomplice
A reasonable belief that a specific person has committed a crime
What is Probable Cause
A defense used to prove that a defendant was unable to form intent
Intoxication
the unlawful premeditated killing of one human by another
What is Murder
A person who orders the crime to be committed
What is Accessory before the fact
If a court determines a search was unreasonable the evidence can not be used in court
What is Exclusionary Rule
Acting under the authority of your job
What is Excusable Conduct
the physical act that results in harmful or offensive contact with another person without their consent
What is battery
Person who knows a crime has been committed and helps the criminal avoid capture
What is Accessory after the fact
A court order signed by a judge to search a specific person or place for specific things
What is a Warrant
Evidence that suggest that the defendant was somewhere else at the time of the crime
What is Alibi
the practice of obtaining something such as money through force or threats
What is Extortion
A sworn statement of facts and circumstances to provide probable cause for a justified search
What is an Affadavit
Self defense or defense of others or property. Usually fear bodily harm and force must be reasonable.
What is Justifiable Conduct