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Criminal Law 1L Updated2023-2024 /CompleteQuestions And Answers Download To Pass!!!
Quiz :Homicide - Answer :Killing of one human being by another
Quiz :Homicide - Answer :Homicide is the killing of one human being by
another human being.
Quiz :Murder - Answer :Murder is the homicide with malice aforethought.
Quiz :First Degree Murder - Answer :First degree murder is murder by poison;
lying in wait; torture; murder done willfully, deliberately and with
premeditation; or murder that results from a death that occurred during the
commission of a dangerous felony—in other words, through application of the
Felony Murder Rule.
Quiz :Second Degree Murder - Answer :Second degree murder is all other
murders committed with malice aforethought but which do not meet the
requirements for murder in the first degree.
Quiz :Manslaughter - Answer :Manslaughter is an unlawful homicide
committed without malice aforethought.
Quiz :Voluntary Manslaughter - Answer :Voluntary manslaughter is the
intentional homicide without actual malice or with malice but under mitigating
circumstances.
Quiz :Involuntary Manslaughter - Answer :Involuntary manslaughter is
unintentional homicide without malice but under circumstances involving
gross negligence.
Quiz :Malice Aforethought - Answer :Malice aforethought exists when the
defendant has a "man endangering state of mind" as evidenced by one of the
following intentions: 1. An intent to kill as expressed by the defendant; 2. An
intent to cause someone serious bodily harm as implied by the actions of the
defendant; 3. A wanton and willful disregard of human life as implied by the
actions of the defendant; 4. An intent to resist a lawful arrest in a dangerous
manner as implied by the actions of the defendant.; 5. An intent to commit a
dangerous felony as implied by the actions of the defendant.
, Quiz :Willful - Answer :Done with intent
Quiz :Deliberation - Answer :To carefully consider
Quiz :Premeditation - Answer :Premeditation means to think out or plan
beforehand.
Quiz :Actual Cause or Cause in Fact - Answer :Actual Cause or Cause in Fact is
that cause which starts, ignites or makes possible the act which follows and is
determined by the "but for" or "substantial factor" test.
Quiz :Proximate Cause - Answer :Proximate Cause is an act which in a natural
and continuous sequence of events, unbroken by unforeseeable, independent,
intervening acts, causes injury to the plaintiff, without which the injury would
not have occurred.
Quiz :The Intended Results Doctrine - Answer :The Intended Results Doctrine
holds that if a person causes events to come about which obtain his or her
desired result, then that person's actions are still the proximate cause of the
result even if an intervening act was independent and unforeseeable. This
doctrine therefore states an exception to the otherwise applied rule of
proximate cause, as defined above.
Quiz :The Doctrine of Contributory Causes - Answer :The Doctrine of
Contributory Causes holds that when more than one cause brings about the
result, then both are equally responsible.
Quiz :The Corpus Delicti - Answer :The Corpus Delicti is the body of the crime,
meaning the prima facie case or elements of the crime.
Quiz :Mens Rea - Answer :A guilty mind or guilty intentions.
Quiz :Actus Reus - Answer :The overt act.
Quiz :Malum In Se - Answer :A wrong in itself, in other words, something
naturally evil.
Quiz :Malum Prohibitum - Answer :Something made wrong by legislation.
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