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Constitutional Limitations
Elements of Criminal Responsibility
The Criminal Justice System
Parties to a Crime
Potpourri
100
Searches and seizures are unreasonable if the individual has a reasonable expectation of
What is privacy?
100
The mental state or intent of a crime
What is mens era?
100
Laws that involve violation of public rights
What is criminal law?
100
One who aids in the commission of a crime
What is accessory?
100
Law that deals with matters considered to be private concerns between individuals
What is civil law?
200
When an officer has reasonable belief that a particular person has committed a crime
What is probable cause?
200
Being aware of a serious risk but going ahead and taking it anyway
What is reckless?
200
A deposit of cash guaranteeing the accused will appear in court
What is bail?
200
One who is present at and participates in the crime charged
What is principal?
200
Rules governing how criminal law is administered
What is procedural criminal law?
300
Custody, interrogation, warning, and waiver
What is Miranda?
300
Crimes that have no mens era
What is strict liability crimes?
300
The paper issued by a grand jury that charges an accused with a felony
What is indictment?
300
Announcing intent to withdraw support of the commission of the crime
What is abandonment?
300
The physical action of a crime
What is actus reus?
400
Procedures and processes that must be followed before a person can be legally deprived of his or her life, liberty, or property
What is due process?
400
A failure to act viewed as a crime
What is omission?
400
Private wrongs
What is torts?
400
A doctrine that holds an accomplice liable for any foreseeable additional offenses committed by the principal
What is nature and probable consequences?
400
Prohibits cruel and unusual punishment
What is the Eighth Amendment?
500
Criminalizes an act before law enacted
What is ex post facto law?
500
That cause that is the "legal" cause of the social harm
What is proximate cause?
500
Laws created by judicial opinion
What is common law?
500
A law enforcement officer induces a person to commit a crime that the person would not have committed
What is entrapment?
500
Criminal justice procedures and processes required before a person can be legally deprived of his or her life, liberty, or property
What is due process?