Criminal Law 2019 Fall Exam

____ - the highest degree of force

The criminal liability of one party for the criminal acts of another party is known as ____

The ___ character of terrorism confounds the application of the laws of war to terrorism

If the state of Kansas wanted to improve its criminal laws, the state legislators could look at the ____ Penal Code

Danny Hayes drives 50 mph on a residential street that has a speed limit of 30 mph. Danny's behavior is reckless because

One rationale for the infancy defense is that children are ____

For the defense of ____, the defendant claims that he/she had to commit some unlawful act to prevent a greater harm

People who oppose abortion often rely on ____ law to support their arguments

The procedure that effectively guarantee individual rights in the face of criminal prosecution are known as ____

The castle exception is an exception to the ____ rule

The statutory elements of the crime of ___ are: 1. an unlawful killing 2. of a human being 3. with malice aforethought

____ is involvement in crime either as a principle or as an accomplice

In order to prove the crime of conspiracy, the gov. is required to prove that the defendant __ the commission of the act

Which of the following is the statute enacted in response to the Oklahoma City Bombing

A man stands outside the courthouse with a bullhorn, making a speech that he hopes to influence the judge, this is ____

Claims of self-defense are weakened whenever ____

A criminal conspiracy is a(n) ____ to commit an unlawful act

In regard to resisting a lawful arrest, ass jurisdictions today ____

Insanity is a ____ term

____ is a legal term that refers to the intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or legal excuse

____ occurs when one person requests or encourages another to perform a criminal act

The authority of a state to enact and enforce a criminal statute is called ____

A(n) ____ is a legislative act of punishing a person or a select group of people without the benefit of judicial trial

____ refers to something that is obscene or lewd, or tends to cause lust

____ is one form os disorderly conduct that is often described as unlawful public fighting to the terror of the people

Under common law, the individual who actually committed the crime was the ___

The early Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison set out the doctrine of ____

insanity is a(n) ____ defense

Attempt is a ___ crime

The Model Penal Code outlines four ____: Purposeful, knowing, reckless, and negligent

____ law originates from use or custom rather than from written statutes

Greg Etter commits a burglary to get money to buy drugs. Getting money to buy drugs in Bob's

The ___ for determining insanity asks whether the defendant knew what he/she was doing or whether he was doing is wrong

The verdict of guilty but mentally ill is the equivalent of a(n) ____

The primary or moving cause that plays a substantial part in bringing about injury or damage is called

In 1910, the federal government passed the Mann Act of "White Slave Traffic Act" for the purpose of controlling ____

The ability to exercise control over property or objects, even though they are not in ones physical custody, is known as

A method for determining casualty, which holds that "without this, that would not be," is known as the ____

Answers to the question of "What is a drug?" depend to a large extent on ____

In United States v. Ursery, the Supreme Court rejected the idea that civil forfeiture laws constitute a form of ____

The part of the law that defines crimes and specifies punishment is ____

Criminal liability is the degree of ____ assigned to a defendant by a criminal court

____ refers to the facts that show that a crime has occurred, and literally means the "body of crime"

One of America's first immigration laws, 1924 Immigration Act, sought to end a huge influx of mostly male workers from

Crimes against public decency and morality do not have specific and identifiable individual ____

____ is the unlawful application of physical force on the person of the victim, even when np actual physical harm occurs

____ is unlawful physical violence inflicted upon another without his or her consent

Court ruling in which of the following cases established that the use of fighting words is punishable as a criminal act

Many states recognize 3 types of ____ homicide: 1. murder 2. manslaughter 3. negligent homicide