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| The parties liable as principles before and during the crime. |
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| The parties liable for seperate, lesser offenses following a crime. |
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| Agreeing to commit a crime. |
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| The principle of liability for another based on relationship. |
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| A person's presence at the scene of a crime does not by itself satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability. |
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| The principle regarding parties to crime that establishes the conditions under which more than one person incurs liability before, during, and after committing crime; when one person is liable for another person's crime. |
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| Whoever, knowing that an offense has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an __________; one who knowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon in order to hinder the felon's apprehension, trial, or punishment |
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| Offenses based on crimes not yet committed. |
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| Dangerious Act Rationale (in attempt law) |
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| Looking at how fully defendant developed a criminal purpose to commit a crime. |
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| The defense that what the actor attempted was not a "crime" |
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| The giving up of a thing absolutely, without reference to any particular person or purpose. For example, vacating property with the intention of not returning, so that it may be appropriated by the next comer or finder. The voluntary relinquishment of possession of a thing by its owner with the intention of terminating ownership, but without vesting it in any other person. The relinquishing of all title, possession, or claim, or a virtual, intentional throwing away of property. |
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| Agreeing to commit a crime. |
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| Trying to get someone to commit a crime. |
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| A homicide that is neither justified or excused. |
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| An individual who has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards |
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| Homicide law once said that to be a person, and therefore a homicide victime, a baby had to be "born alive" and capable of breathing and maintaining a heartbeat on its own. |
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| What Distinguishes Death Penalty |
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| Sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. Depending on state laws, it may be allowed or illegal to enact the death penalty. |
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| Aggravating Circumstances |
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| Circumstances that increase the seriousness or outrageousness of a given crime, which will increase the wrongdoer's penalty or punishment. For example, the crime of aggravated assault is a physical attack made worse because it is committed with a dangerous weapon, results in severe bodily injury, or is made in conjunction with another serious crime. Aggravated assault is usually considered a felony, punishable by a prison sentence. |
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| Killing on purpose after planning it. |
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| Unintentional deaths that occur during the commission of felonies. |
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| Exremely reckless killing. |
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| Conditions or happenings which do not excuse or justify criminal conduct, but are considered out of mercy or fairness in deciding the degree of the offense the prosecutor charges or influencing reduction of the penalty upon conviction. Example: a young man shoots his father after years of being beaten, belittled, sworn at and treated without love. "Heat of passion" or "diminished capacity" are forms of such mitigating circumstances. |
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| Objective test of cooling off time |
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| In voluntary manslaughter, the element of whether in similar circumstances a reasonable person would have had time to cool off. |
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| Violent and non-violent offenses. Violent includes forcible rape and non-violent includes statutory rape. All amongst other things. |
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| The addition of spousal rape. |
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| Rape that requires force. Rape where the anal or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of the victim. In a this specific form of rape, the victim is prevented from resisting the sexual act because of the offender’s use of force or threats of physical violence, under circumstances where the victim reasonably believes that such resistance would not prevent the rape. |
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| To have carnal knowledge of a person under the age of consent whether or not accomplish by force. |
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| Taking or carrying away another person with intent to deprive the other person of personal liberty. |
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| The heart of the crime is depriving others of their personal liberty. |
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| A person is guilty of this if he or she attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another or causes such injury purposely, knowingly, or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or attempts to cause or purposely or knowingly causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon. In all jurisdictions statutes punish such aggravated assaults as assault with intent to murder (or rob or kill or rape) and assault with a dangerous (or deadly) weapon more severely than "simple" assaults. |
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| Unwanted and unjustified offensive touching. |
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| Defense of reasonable mistake |
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| The belief may apply where a person conducts themselves in a certain way, and does so in an honest belief that they are entitled to do so. In these circumstances, that person is entitled to raise this defence as a mistake. The act would not have been committed with a guilty mind.
This defence can only be brought up in cases of strict liability. In these types of cases, there is no requirement for the prosecution to prove that an accused intended the result to occur. |
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