Commission of an act prohibited by criminal law or the failure to act as required by criminal law or the failure to act as required by criminal law.
What is crime?
100
The state of mind referring to the willful commission of an act
What is intent
100
A legal challenge by the defendant
What is a defense
100
A legal challenge by the defendant
What is a defense
100
This refers to the number of crimes per 100,000 in the population
What is crime rate
200
An attempt to overthrow the government
What is treason
200
The literal meaning of "a guilty mind"
What is mens rea
200
An act involving a step toward the commission of a crime
What is attempt
200
A defense involving a state of mind or mental condition that negates a defendant's responsibility for his or her actions.
What is insanity
200
The unlawful and unjustified killing of another human being with malice afterthought.
What is murder
300
Attorney that represents the state in a criminal case.
What is a prosecutor
300
Acts that a reasonable person would not do or the failure to do something that a reasonable person would do under the same or similar circumstances.
What is negligence
300
The asking, inciting, ordering, urgently requesting, or enticing of another person to commit a crime
What is solicitation
300
This can be raised by the defendants who have evidence that they were unconscious or semiconscious when the alleged crimes were committed
What is automatism
300
The act of planning, deliberating, designing, or thinking out in advance as intention to kill another person.
What is premeditation
400
An attorney who represents the accused in a criminal case.
What is defense attorney
400
The "why" of a defendant's actions
What is a motive
400
No crime would have been committed even if the defendant's intentions had been fully performed or set in motion.
What is legal impossibility
400
This is when a defendant was induced to commit a crime that he or she would not have been inclined to commit without the government agent's actions.
What is entrapment
400
A killing that is intentional but carries no evil intent and is permitted by the law.
What is justifiable homicide
500
An incomplete trial
What is a mistrial
500
Criminal act
What is actus reus
500
There are circumstances, unknown to the actor, that prevented the commission of an attempt
What is factual imposibility
500
This is when the actors have reasonable beliefs that such force is necessary to protect them from harm that might cause serious bodily injury or death.