The crime of making an effort to persuade or convince another person to commit a crime.
What is solicitation?
100
An agreement between two or more people to commit a crime.
What is a conspiracy?
100
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What is an incomplete attempt?
100
Why a person cannot get a ticket for going 55 in a 65 mile per hour zone, even if they *think* they are speeding.
What is legal impossibility?
100
Offenses that punish the beginning steps toward a crime.
What are inchoate offenses or crimes?
200
A variety of terms are used to describe the required act, including command, encourage, and request.
What is the actus reus of solicitation?
200
In addition to an agreement and a specific intent, THIS is also required to show conspiracy in most jurisdictions.
What is an overt act?
200
Utility--Incentive for people to halt before the completion of a criminal act.
Why do we punish someone less harshly for an attempt?
200
"I did agree to commit the murder and I bought the gun. But when I saw the beautiful woman target, I had second thoughts, packed up my stuff, and walked away."
What is abandonment?
200
Better to be this than an accomplice.
What is an accessory?
300
In California, you can be guilty of soliciting both felonies and THESE
What are misdemeanors?
300
Intervention
Group Activity
Deterrence
What are the reasons to punish conspiracy?
300
Complete and incomplete.
What are the two kinds of attempt?
300
An individual must intentionally perform the acts AND
An individual must possess the specific intent or purpose to achieve a criminal objective.
What is the mens rea of criminal attempt?
300
One of the parties to a crime under the common law that has been eliminated in nearly all jurisdictions today.
What is accessory before the fact (OR what is principal in the second degree)?
400
Sitting around thinking about hiring someone to kill your ex is not a crime because it lacks THIS.
What is the actus reus OR the act of hiring/commanding/encouraging someone to commit the crime?
400
Involves a single person or group as a hub, or common core, connecting various independent individuals or spokes
What is a circle (or wheel) conspiracy?
400
This occurs when an individual takes every act required to commit a crime and yet fails to succeed.
What is a complete attempt?
400
When the abandonment was influenced by an EXTRANEOUS factor.
When is abandonment not a defense?
400
What every single crime is composed of.
What are elements? (Will also take mens rea and actus rea)
500
The kind of liability you have if your solicitation of a crime results in the completion of the target offense.
What is accomplice liability?
500
An individual is guilty of all criminal acts committed by one of the conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy, regardless of whether the individual aided or abetted or was even aware of the offense.
What is the Pinkerton Doctrine?
500
(1) an intent or purpose to commit a crime,
(2) an act or acts toward the commission of the crime, and
(3) a failure to complete the crime.
What are the elements of attempt?
500
The reason the following is not a good defense to liability:
"But I did not expect that the drug conspiracy I joined was going to result in a shooting during a drug hand off."
What are foreseeable consequences?
500
The constitutional amendment that guarantees equal protection under the law.