Criminal Law I Flashcards
Sexual assault by someone the victim knows
Date Rape
Putting someone to death who is terminally ill
Euthanasia
When someone violates the law
Crime
When someone is held criminally responsible for failing to act when they could/should have
Failure to Act (Crimes of Omission)
The person that commits the crime
Principle
When a person prepares to commit a crime, and then takes some actual steps toward the commisson of the crime, but fails to complete the crime
Attempt
When a person did not mean to commit a crime, then it could be argued that they did not have this
Criminal Intent
The reason why a person commits a crime
Motive
The factors or specific types of conditions that make certain activity criminal
Elements
When two or more people agree to commit a crime together
Conspiracy
Having the intent to kill someone
Malice
Sexual intercourse with a person who has no reached the legal age of consent
Statatory Rape
These crimes do not require criminal intent
Strict Liability
The attempt to carry out a physical attack on another person
Assault
When a person pressures or demands another to commit a crime for them
Solicitation
Unlawful physcial contact inflicted on another without permission
Battery
The automatic loss of license when refusing a breathlyzer
Implied Consent Law
Classifies drugs into five groups depending on
1. Medical use
2. Potential for abuse
3. Capability to create physical and psychological addiction
Controlled Substances Act
- Principle
- Accomplice
- Accessory Before the Fact
- Accessory After the Fact
Four parties to a crime
- Solicitation
- Attempt
- Conspiracy
Preliminary Crimes
Enhancing penalities for OUI’s to target repeat offenders
Melanie’s Law
A killing that is premeditated, deliberate and done with malice
First degree murder
A killing that takes place during a felony
Felony murder
A killing with malice but without premeditation
Second degree murder
Intentional killing committed under circumstances that lessen but not justify the killing; allows for a reasonable person to lose control
Non-criminal homicide
Unintentional killing resulting from reckless conduct which caused death
Involuntary manslaughter
Causing a death through criminal negligence
Negligant homiicde
Killing done with malice
Criminal homicide
A killing that is excusable or justifiable
Non-criminal homicide
