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Intro to Criminal Law
Potpourri
Defenses
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Homicide
100
A defined body of rules of conduct created by government and enforced by a government authority.
What is the law?
100

The intent to detain and move or to detain and hide another without consent and the act of detention and moving through the unlawful use of force or threat of force

What is kidnapping?

100

Defendant, at the time of the crime, suffered from
such a defect of reason that defendant “did not
know what defendant was doing” or “did not know
right from wrong” aka The right-wrong test

What is M’Naghten rule ?

100

The illegal carrying away of a person by force or coercion, generally with intent to do harm to the victim.

What is abduction?

100
The homicide of an infant.
What is infanticide.
200
A jury that is unable to reach a decision.
What is a hung jury?
200
When one person is held responsible for the act of another.
What is vicarious liability?
200

A “disease of the mind” caused defendant to not
know right from wrong, destroyed defendant’s free
will, and was the sole cause of the act  

What is Irresistible impulse test?

200
The most common defense to rape.
What is consent?
200

A killing of another with the intent to commit a dangerous felony and killing during dangerous felony.

What is the felony murder rule?

300

Having to prove the allegations as true.

What is burden of proof?

300

reasonable belief and immediately necessary to employ proportionate force to protect oneself against unlawful force

What is self-defense?

300

the act was a product of a mental disease or defect

What is Durham product test ?

300

An act of force or threat of force intended to inflict harm upon a person or to put the person in fear that such harm is imminent.

What is assault?

300
For example, the homicide of a person pursuant to the rules of engagement during military conflict without criminal intent.
What is justifiable homicide.
400
Proof that it is more likely than not that an offense took place and that the defendant committed it.
What is probable cause?
400

a pattern of signs and symptoms displayed by a woman who has suffered persistent intimate partner violence—psychological, physical, or sexual—from her male partner

What is Battered woman syndrome ?

400

Defendant lacks the capacity to appreciate the
criminality of conduct or to conform to conduct
required by law

What is Substantial capacity test ?

400

the intentional and unlawful confinement or restraint of another person.

What is false imprisonment?

400

A homicide committed with the intent to kill, but without deliberation, premeditation, or malice.

What is voluntary manslaughter?

500
An order by a federal court to "bring the body" of the prisoner to the court.
What is habeas corpus?
500
The process of selecting jurors, which involves asking potential jurors questions to determine whether they can judge the case fairly and impartially.
What is voir dire?
500

A verdict of _____ applies where the jury determines
beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was
mentally ill, but not legally insane, at the time of his
or her criminal act

What is guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) ?

500

True or False: there is no difference between an assault and a battery.

False

500

The unlawful killing of human being and done purposely, or knowingly or recklessly or negligently

What is criminal homicide?