Law that permits a person to leave their newborns at designated safe places (e.g: fire stations, police stations..) and not be subject to criminal prosecution
What is Baby Moses Laws
200
Law is derived from 4 sources, name one of them.
What is statutes, constitutions, judicial decisions, administrative regulations
200
"The body of the crime"
What is corpus delicti
200
Act of planning, deliberating, designing, or thinking out in advance an intention to kill another person
What is premeditation
300
Legislative act that inflicts punishment without a judicial trial
What is Bill of Attainder
300
"guilty mind"
What is mens rea
300
Includes deliberate, premeditated, intent-to-kill murders committed during the commission of enumerated felonies such as rape, robbery, or kidnapping.
What is First Degree Murder
400
As defined by the supreme court, this law "retroactively alters the definition of crimes or increases the punishment for criminal acts"
What is Ex Post Facto Law
400
Evidence of facts other than those on which proof is needed but from which deductions or inferences may be drawn concerning the facts in dispute
What is Circumstantial Evidence
400
Unlawful killing without malice
What is manslaughter
500
This leaves public officials and others the freedom to make independent judgments concerning the disposition of cases.
What is Discretion
500
Additional facts surrounding a crime
What is Attendant Circumstances
500
Refers to the killing of a child at or soon after its birth