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| • Any act that the law makes punishable |
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| Explain the four culpable mental states. |
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• Purposely – Specific intention to cause a certain result; or when the offense is a prohibition against certain conduct of a certain nature, regardless of what the offender intends to accomplish, it is the offender’s specific intention to engage in the conduct
• Knowingly – Aware that conduct will probably cause a certain result or will probably be of a certain nature, regardless of purpose
• Recklessly – With heedless indifference to the consequences, perversely disregard a known risk that conduct is likely to cause a certain result
• Negligently – Because of substantial lapse from due care, fails to perceive or avoid a risk that conduct may cause a certain result |
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| • A government’s general power to exercise authority over all persons and things within its territory |
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| Describe the difference between statutory law and case law |
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• Statutory Law – the body of law derived from statutes rather than from constitutions or judicial decisions
• Case Law – the law found in the collection of reported cases that form all or part of the body of law within a given jurisdiction |
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| • Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any means on or against a person or thing |
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| • Any force which carries a substantial risk that it will proximately result in the death of any person |
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| Differentiate between physical harm to persons and serious physical harm to persons. |
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• Physical Harm to Persons – any injury, illness or other physiological impairment, regardless of its gravity or duration
• Serious Physical Harm to Persons
• Any mental illness or condition of such gravity as would normally require hospitalization or prolonged psychiatric treatment
• Any physical harm that carries a substantial risk of death
• Any physical harm that involves some permanent incapacity, whether partial or total or that involves some temporary, substantial incapacity
• Any physical harm that involves some permanent disfigurement or that involves some temporary, serious disfigurement
• Any physical harm that involves acute (i.e., severe) pain of such duration as to result in substantial suffering or that involves any degree of prolonged or intractable pain |
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| Differentiate between physical harm to property and serious physical harm to property. |
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• Physical Harm to Property – any tangible or intangible damage to property that, in any degree, results in loss to its value or interferes with its use or enjoyment
• Serious Physical Harm to Property – any physical harm to property that does either of the following:
o Results in substantial loss to the value of the property or requires a substantial amount of time, effort or money to repair or replace
o Temporarily prevents the use or enjoyment of the property or substantially interferes with its use or enjoyment for an extended period of time |
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