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Assault

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Intent to cause another fear or imminent injury

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Battery

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Intent to cause injury or offensive toughing

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1st Degree Murder

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Premeditated OR

Felony

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2nd Degree Murder

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All murder that isn’t 1st degree or manslaughter

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Voluntary Manslaughter

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  • Provocation
  • D was in fact provoked
  • No time to cool off
  • D did not cool off
  • or imperfect self defense
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Involuntary Manslaughter

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  1. Gross negligence

2. defendant disregarded substantial harm/death

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Larceny

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  • Intent to Steal
  • property of another
  • taking and carrying away
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Embezzlement

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  • Lawfully in possession

- fraud conversion of another

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False Pretenses

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defendant knowingly lies to someone to get title

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Robbery

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  • Property taken from their presence

- through force or fear

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Burglary

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  • Breaking and entering
  • of house
  • at nighttime
  • intent to commit felony
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Receipt of Stolen Property

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  • knowingly
  • receive, conceal or dispose
  • stolen property
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Solicitation

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  • Request or encourage
  • another to commit a crime
  • intent they do so
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Conspiracy

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  • Agreement
  • 2 or more people
  • intent to commit unlawful act
  • majority = overt act
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Attempt

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  • intent to commit crime

- beyond mere preparation

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Accomplice

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  • Principal = commits crime
  • accomplice = aids & abets, liable if foreseeable
  • accessory after the fact = obstruction of justice
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General Intent Crimes (aware)

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You have to be aware.

  1. Rape
  2. Kidnapping
  3. False Imprisonment
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Rape

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  • unlawful sex

- no consent

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Kidnapping

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  • unlawful confinement

- move or conceal in a secret place

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False imprisonment

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  • aware of confining a person

- aware of confinement

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Malice Crime

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Arson

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Arson

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  • malicious burning

- dwelling of another

23
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Strict Liability

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guilty for just committing the act

  1. statutory rape
  2. selling liquor to minor
24
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Defenses to Specific Intent Crimes

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  1. Self Defense
  2. Defense of others
  3. Defense of property
  4. Insanity
  5. Necessity
  6. Mistake of fact (specific crimes only)
  7. Impossibility
  8. Entrapment
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Insanity

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  1. M’Naughten
  2. Durham
  3. Irresistible Impulse
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M’Naugten

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  • D has a mental disease

- does not understand or know its wrong

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Durham

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Insanity defense. Conduct is the product of the mental illness

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Irresistible impulse

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Insanity defense. Defendant is unable to control conduct

29
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Voluntary Intoxication

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Negates specific intent crimes only

30
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Involuntary Intoxication

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Defense for all crimes, treated as insanity

31
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Impossibility

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Fact= no defense
law= defense because its not criminal
32
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Entrapment

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  • law enforcement
  • induces D to commit crime
  • D would not have committed the crime

valid defense

33
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4th amendment

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protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures

34
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Arrest

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  • need warrant if in home

- probable cause (reasonable belief based off of articulable facts)

35
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Search and Seizure

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A search warrant based on probable cause is required for government search and seizure in a location where one has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Must be government action and not a private person.
No warrant needed for

  1. Search Incident to Arrest
  2. Plain view
  3. automobile exception
  4. consent
  5. exigent circumstances
  6. stop & frisk
36
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Search Incident to Arrest

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  • lawful arrest
  • police can search the area within the grab zon
  • police can do a protective sweep of all or some of the premises where the defendant is arrested if they have a reasonable belief other dangerous people are present
  • police can search a car and its compartments if they have probable cause to believe evidence fo the offense is in the car
37
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Plain View

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Police can make warrantless search i they see contraband in plain view as long as they are lawfully on premises

38
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Automobile Exception

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  • Police can randomly stop cars if there is reasonable suspicion
  • police can search the entire car if they have probable cause to believe the contraband they are arresting for is in the car.
  • if the defendant is arrested and the car is impounded, they can search the car without a warrant at the station
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Exigent Circumstances

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  • Destruction of evidence
  • injury to a person
  • hot pursuit
40
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Stop & Frisk

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  • Reasonable suspicion
  • articulable facts
  • pat down for weapons okay
41
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Exclusionary Rule

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  • cause use evidence found in violation of defendants 4th, 5th or 6th amendment right
  • defendant needs standing to be able to use exclusionary rule
42
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Fruit of Poisonous Tree

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Evidence found from violation of 4th, 5th or 6th amendment is inadmissible except

i. independent souce
ii. inevitable discovery
iii. no casual chain, too attenuated

  • illegally obtained evidence can still be used to impeach
  • illegally obtained evidence is still allowed in civil court and parole hearings
43
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5th amendment

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Miranda warnings. When defendant is in custody and interrogation his confession will only be admissible if he received miranda warnings.

  • cant re-mirandize. 14 days needed
  • can waive miranda if it is voluntary. Mere silence is not enough
  • If miranda is invoked police must cease all questions
  • fingerprints, lineups, blood samples, photographs do not violate 5th amendment
44
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Custody

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A reasonable person would not feel free to leave

45
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Interrogation

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Police action that would reasonably elicit incriminating information

-suspect must be aware they are talking to the police. A custodial interrogation doesn’t happen when a suspect speaks to an undercover agent or informant even if in jail

46
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5th Amendment Double Jeopardy

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Protects people from being tried twice. Attached when jury is impaneled and sworn in or when the 1st witness is sworn in on a bench trial

47
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5th Amendment Due Process

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  • confessions must be voluntary

- identifications cannot be suggestive

48
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6th Amendment

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Persons right to counsel. A suspect who has been charged with a crime has a right to counsel.

49
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6th amendment Confrontation Clause

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Defendant has a right to confront adverse witnesses. Applies to co-defendants as well. Must redact statement or put them on the stand to be crossed

50
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6th Amendment right to jury trial

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defendant has a right to a jury trial if they are facing more than 6 months in jail

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