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Ch 13 Terminology Flashcards

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Capital Crime

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A crime that is punishable by death

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Corpus Delicti

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A body on which a crime has been committed

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Corpus Delicti

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A body on which a crime has been committed

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Euthanasia

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An active procedure to hasten the death of one who is terminally ill or in immense suffering

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Felon

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a person who has committed a felony

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Felony Murder

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Murder committed while in the commission or attempted commission of a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life

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Felony Murder

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Murder committed while in the commission or attempted commission of a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life

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First-degree Murder

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Murder committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforthought, or with extreme atrocisty or cruelty, or while in the commission of a crime punishableby life in prison

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First-degree Murder

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Murder committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforthought, or with extreme atrocisty or cruelty, or while in the commission of a crime punishableby life in prison

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Genocide

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the killing of a racial or political group

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Genocide

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the killing of a racial or political group

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Imminent Danger

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The situation that exist when an unlawful attack is about to happen

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Infanticide

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The killing of an infant soon after birth

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Infanticide

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The killing of an infant soon after birth

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Justifiable Homicide

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the taking of a human life when an excuse exists

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Justifiable Homicide

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the taking of a human life when an excuse exists

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Manslaughter

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the unlawful killing of one human being by another without malice aforethought

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Matricide

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killing one’s mother

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Matricide

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killing one’s mother

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Patricide

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the killing of one’s father

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Patricide

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the killing of one’s father

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Proximate Cause

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the dominant or moving cause

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Proximate Cause

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the dominant or moving cause

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Second-degree Murder

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Murder that is not found to be in the first degree

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Second-degree Murder

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Murder that is not found to be in the first degree

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Suicide

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deliberate, lethal self destruction

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Suicide

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deliberate, lethal self destruction

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Uxoricide

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the killing of one’s wife

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Voluntary Manslaughter

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the unlawful killing of another without malice, when an intention to kill exists, but through the violence of sudden passion

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Voluntary Manslaughter

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the unlawful killing of another without malice, when an intention to kill exists, but through the violence of sudden passion

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Year-and-a-Day Rule

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the rule stating that death must have occurred within a year and a day after the blow occurred in order for a defendant to be convicted of homicide

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