The commission of an act prohibited by criminal law or the failure to act as required by criminal law.
What is crime?
100
Omission or failure to act may also constitute an act for purposes of criminal culpability.
What is legal duty?
100
The asking, inciting, urgently requesting, or enticing of another person to commit a crime.
What is solicitation?
100
Can result in a reduced charge or an acquittal if successful.
What is defense?
100
A human being kills another human being by his or her own act, omission, or procurement.
What is homicide?
200
A more serious crime. Crimes for which offenders may be sentenced to death or imprisoned for a long period.
What is felony?
200
The state of mind referring to the willful commission of an act or the omission of an act one has a legal duty to perform.
What is intent?
200
To assist or facilitate the commission of a crime.
What is aid or abet?
200
Condition in which an individual is coerced or induced by the wrongful act of another to commit a criminal act.
What is duress?
200
The killing was predetermined and intentional.
What is malice aforethought?
300
Once a defendent has been tried and acquitted of a crime, he or she may not be tried again for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy?
300
Direct evidence of facts from which deductions or inferences may be drawn concerning the facts in dispute.
What is circumstanial evidence?
300
The crime containing two elements; a criminal intent and a criminal act.
What is attempt?
300
Defense involving a state of mind or mental condition that negates a defendant's responsibility for his or her actions.
What is insanity?
300
The killing of a child at or soon after its birth.
What is infanticide?
400
Appellate courts may interpret the acts and events that occur in the other two branches as well as in lower courts.
What is judicial review?
400
Sexual intercourse or other sexual acts as well with an underage person even though that person allegedly consented.
What is statutory rape?
400
The individual shares in the responsibility for the crime but not in the criminal act itself.
What is accomplice?
400
Similar to the insanity defense, can be raised by defendants who have evidence that they were unconscious or semiconscious when they acted.
What is automatism?
400
A cluster of abnormalities that a fetus may have due to the fact that its mother consumed alcohol during her pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
500
The lawful right of the legislative, executive, or judicial branch to exercise official authority.
What is jurisdiction?
500
Facts surrounding an event.
What is attendant circumstances?
500
Agreeing with another to join together for the purpose of committing an unlawful act or agreeing to use unlawful means to commit an act that would otherwise be lawful.
What is conspiracy?
500
The evidence supports the fact or facts in question.
What is preponderance of the evidence?
500
The deceased may have begged to be killed because of a terminal illness, considerable and uncontrollable pain, or a severe disability.