Chapter 1
The body of criminal law created by the U.S. Congress
What is the U.S. Criminal Code?
Guaranteed by the Second Amendment, this is still possibly the most hotly debated rights of the U.S. Constitution
What is the right to bear arms?
These are "building blocks" that include mens rea, a criminal act, and a bad result, as well as two other elements.
What are the elements of a crime?
What is mens rea?
Violations of federal or state administrative agency rules
What are administrative crimes?
“No crime without law; no punishment without law.”
What is the principle of legality?
The criminal act
What is actus reus?
This liability requires neither objective nor subjective fault.
What is strict liability?
A school of criminal punishment theory that believes punishment should be for the "greater good"; also known as preventionists
What are consequentialists?
Though this word isn't mentioned once in the constitution, this was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court to be a constitutional right.
What is privacy?
This legal fiction is really a condition, but the law pretends it's an act.
What is possession?
Some examples of this in the Alabama Code are "Deisgnedly", "Maliciously", "Negligently", "Wickedly", and "Without due caution"
What are mental attitudes?
A common style of textbook, used in a variety of law course textbooks to teach students to think critically of criminal law
What is a text-case book?
A court case that was said to be “the first in a series of constitutional explosions that have rocked the world of criminal sentencing and caused fundamental alterations”.
Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000)
What is the voluntary act requirement?
A type of crime which brokers no room for a mistake defense.
What is a strict liability crime?
What is parsimony?
The judge who sentenced Shawn Gementera to an embarrassing punishment for pilfering mail in San Francisco
Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000)
A rather interesting Pennsylvania case that at it's core was a question of whether or not a possible verbal contract instilled liability of death on the defendants.
Commonwealth v. Pestinikas (1992)
A court case of liability, a study involving 8-12 year old boys and a firearm was an important factor to the final judgement.
What is State v. Bauer (2014)?