You Kill Me
The mens rea for Murder at common law.
Malice Aforethought
The rule that holds members of a conspiracy liable for the completed crime and its foreseeable consequences.
The Pinkerton rule
The temporal requirement for a threat of bodily injury to justify self-defense.
Imminence
A robbery is a larceny committed in this particular way.
What is threat or use of force.
The actus reus for conspiracy under the MPC.
Overt Act
The rule that a person should not be found guilty of felony murder for a killing that occurs during the commission of assault with a deadly weapon.
Ireland Rule / merger rule.
The part of the bicycle to which you would refer to describe one central actor who enters into multiple discreet conspiracies.
Hub and Spoke
In jurisdictions following this theory, a reasonable mistake as to another's justification would not justify using deadly force in defense of that person.
Alter Ego Rule
This defense is also known as the "choice of evils" defense.
Necessity
This Fall Out Boy song describes the impulse the MPC added to the insanity test.
Irresistible
This must be shown to mitigate murder to manslaughter under the MPC.
Extreme mental or emotional disturbance for which there is a reasonable explanation or excuse.
The two specific intents one must have to be guilty as an accomplice.
Intent to assist and intent that the underlying crime be committed.
This doctrine holds that the retreat rule does not apply in one's own home.
Castle Doctrine
The rule that a person can be found legally insane if by virtue of a severe mental disease or defect she failed to appreciate the nature and quality and wrongfulness of her actions or could not tell right from wrong.
The M'Naugten Rule
Under the MPC, a person not in her home or place of work, must do this before resorting to deadly force in self-defense.
Retreat
Recklessness may support a murder conviction under the MPC if it indicates this.
Extreme indifference to the value of human life
Wharton's rule could be helpful to a defendant charged with this crime.
Conspiracy
Intending or knowingly creating a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
Deadly Force
The defense other than self-defense most likely to apply when the perpetrator was threatened with bodily harm.
A person who is practically certain his conduct will cause a particular result has this MPC state of mind.
Knowingly
The death of a co-felon is most likely to lead to a felony murder conviction in a jurisdiction that follows this approach to felony murder.
The proximate cause approach
This species of accessory is considered less culpable than the others.
After the Fact
The two circumstances where an initial aggressor may use force in self-defense.
Withdrawal and Escalation
The rule against this posits that every term in a statute should have meaning.
Superfluity
The actus reus for attempt under the MPC
Substantial Step