Definitions
A person attains a specified age on the ____ of the anniversary of this birthdate.
What is a Day?
The Culpable Mental States in order from highest to lowest.
It is a defense to prosecution that the actor through mistake formed a reasonable belief about a matter of fact if his mistaken belief negated the kind of culpability required for commission of the offense.
What is a Mistake of Fact?
A $500 fine.
What is a Class C Misdemeanor?
A person commits an offense if, with specific intent to commit an offense, he does an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tends but fails to effect the commission of the offense intended.
What is Criminal Attempt?
Means physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition?
What is Bodily Injury?
Gross deviation from the standard of care in ordinary functions
What is Criminal Negligence?
It is no defense to prosecution that the actor was ignorant of the provisions of any law after the law has taken effect.
What is Mistake of Law?
180 days to 2 years in jail, a $10,000 fine.
What is a State Jail Felony?
A person commits an offense if he recklessly causes the death of an individual.
What is Manslaughter?
An offense so designated by law or punishable by fine, confinement in jail, or by both fine and confinement in jail?
What is a misdemeanor?
With intent, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result.
What is intentionally?
It is a defense to prosecution that the actor engaged in the conduct charged because he was induced to do so by a law enforcement agent using persuasion or other means likely to cause persons to commit the offense. Conduct merely affording a person an opportunity to commit an offense does not constitute entrapment.
What is Entrapment?
What is a Class A misdemeanor?
A person commits an offense if the person knowingly engages in any pf the following acts in a public place, or if not in a public place, the person is reckless about whether another is present who will be offended or alarmed by the person’s sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, or sexual contact.
The guilt act. The wrongful deed that comprises the physical components of a crime?
What is Actus Reas?
The guilty mind. The state of mind the prosecution, to secure a conviction, must prove the defendant had when committing a crime?
What is Mens Rea?
It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that, at the time of the conduct charged, the actor, as a result of severe mental disease or defect, did not know that his conduct was wrong.
What is Insanity?
2-20 years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
What is a 2nd degree felony?
A person commits an offense if, with the intent to interfere with the lawful custody of a child younger than 18 years, he knowingly entices, persuades, or takes the child from the custody of the parent or guardian or person standing in the stead of the parent or guardian of such child.
What is Enticing a Child?
A place designated by law for the confinement of a person arrested for, charged with, or convicted of a criminal offense?
What is a Correctional Facility?
A place designated by law for confinement of persons arrested for, charged with, or convicted of an offense?
What is a Penal Institution?
It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the actor engaged in the proscribed conduct because he was compelled to do so by threat of imminent death or serious bodily injury to himself or another.
What is Duress?
5-99 years imprisonment; $10,000 fine.
What is a 1st degree felony?
A person commits an offense if, with intent to defraud or harm another, he destroys, removes, conceals, alters, substitutes, or otherwise impairs the verity, legibility, or availability of a writing, other than a governmental record.
What is Fraudulent Destruction, Removal, or Concealment of Writing?