All About That Crime
Accessory to a crime is a separate offense than the main crime
What is Misdemeanor?
Liability that is established when a party can be criminally liable because of their relationship
What is Vicarious liability?
The two types of attempt statues where one applies to all crimes and the other defines specific crimes
What is General Attempt Statute and Specific Attempt Statute?
The 3 categories of Homicide
What is Justifiable, Excusable, and Criminal homicide?
Excessive fail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted
What is the Eighth Amendment?
An agreement to commit a crime
liability established when you can be criminally liable for someone else’s conduct
What is Complicit liability?
The difference between Legal impossibility and Factual impossibility
What is Legal impossibility is the defense that what the actor attempted was not a crime whereas Factual impossibility is the defense that some extraneous factor made it impossible to complete a crime?
The original mental state of active intentional killing that requires spite, hate, or bad will
What is Malice Aforethought?
This person was executed for being a spy for Spain during the first recorded execution and the new colonies under Captain George Fendall in the Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1608.
What is Kendall?
Participants after crimes are committed
What is Accessories?
Liability that has to be created by statute
What is Vicarious Liability?
Defendant clearly intended to commit a crime but changed their mind and scraped the idea
What is Voluntary Abandonment?
The four types of homicide
What is first degree murder, second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter?
The US Supreme Court case that halted all death sentences due to its citing too many inconsistencies and establish that it can't be degrading, torturous arbitrary or an unacceptable method
What is Furman V. Georgia 1972?
Purposely acting and wanting a crime to succeed clearly qualifies as
What is Mens Rea?
The rule where even presence at the scene of a crime followed by flight not enough action to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability
What is the Mere Presence Rule?
Agreeing with one or more persons to commit a crime and its overt act in furtherance of the agreement
What is Conspiracy and Conspiracy Actus Reus?
The Creation of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that caused death, where defendants should have been, but was not aware of a risk.
What is negligent manslaughter?
This process mandates the death penalty decision be made in two phases: trial and punishment
What is bifurcation?
The two parties to crime that exists today
What is Accomplices participants and accessories participants?
The Court’s rationale for extending vicarious liability by the doctrine of respondent superior quote
What is "The history of the times"?
The crime of trying to get someone else to commit a crime where their actus reus holds an imprecise definition and their words that convey their purpose is to get someone to commit a specific crime
What is Solicitation?
The killing of another and is a class D felony
What is reckless homicide?
True or false: The number of executions between 1984-2006 was the same as one third of Texas' population, that population being 1400 citizens
True