most courts define it as psychosis
mental disease
conspirators can be convicted of both conspiracy
and the crime committed
Pinkerton Rule
MPC substantial steps test
test that requires that attempters take enough steps
toward completing the crime to prove that they’re determined to commit it
intentional killings planned in advance
malice aforethought
irresistible impulse test
we can’t blame or deter people
4 parties to a crime
1. Principals in the first degree
2. Principals in the second degree
3. Accessories before the fact
4. Accessories after the fact
occurs when actors intend to commit a crime and try to but it’s physically impossible
factual impossibility
first degree murder
premeditated, deliberate intent to kill murders and
entrapment
excuse that argues government agents got people to commit crimes
they wouldn’t otherwise commit
Accomplice mens rea
It is easy to prove or it is not
crime of trying to get someone else to commit a crime
solicitation
mandatory life sentence without parole
capital cases
defendant suffered a defect of reason
caused by a disease of the mind
McNaughtan Rule
Makes one liable for the acts of another because of a relationship
Vicarious liability
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
all types of organized criminal behavior, that is, enterprise criminality from simple political to sophisticated white collar schemes to traditional Mafia-type
murder actus reus
the act of killing by poisoning, striking, starving, drowning,
courts have the power to
decide if defendants who were insane when they committed their crimes are still insane
civil commitment
scene of a crime aren’t enough to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability
mere presence rule
one or more defendants participate in every transaction
wheel conspiracies
murder mens rea
reckless as the mental
element in killing