Act & Intent
The act of a crime (Latin)
What is Actus Reus?
The lowest level of courts in SD for state courts.
What are circuit courts?
The case where a Father drove his son and his friend to a field to track deer. The son shot what he thought was a deer, but was a man. They then fled without offering assitance.
What is Flippo V. State
not only a particular act but a "defendant's intent to do more"
What is specific intent.
The intent of a Crime.
Mens Rea
The highest state court in SD.
What is the South Dakota Supreme court?
In January 2011, a teachers former student confided that she was a victim of sexual abuse.
What is May v. State?
An act without intent to do a further act
General intent
Fundamental aspects of crime that together cause it to differ from all other activity.
What are the elements (of a crime)?
Name the 3 Federal courts in the US.
What are district courts, circuit courts, and supreme courts?
US v. McVeigh
The intention to kill is an essential element for charging. (True or False)
What is false?
Which laws trumps state laws.
What are constitutional laws?
Actus reus is mandatory or suggestive of what for all crime.
What is the 8th district?
One of the rival gangs of the Country boy Crips (CBC) in People v. Johnson; Dixon; and Lee.
What are the Eastside Crips or the Bloods?
Correlation does not equal:
"The body of customary law, based upon judicial decisions and embodied in reports of decided cases, that has been administered by the common-law courts of England since the Middle Ages." (Brittanica)
What is common law?
What are all crimes?
the legality of booby trapping house. (People v. Ceballos)
Getting tried twice for the same crime
What is Double Jeopardy?