Criminal Law Quiz 4 Flashcards
Under common law, persons who actually committed a crime were called…
Principals in the first degree
Under common law, persons present when a crime was committed and who helped commit it were called…
Principals in the second degree
Under common law, persons not present when the crime is committed, but who help commit it, are called…
Accessories before the fact
Under common law, persons who helped after the crime is committed are called…
Accessories after the fact
Today under the modern rule, there are ____ parties to criminal complicity.
2
The 2 parties to criminal complicity…
Accessory and accomplice
All participants before and during the commission of a crime are prosecuted for the ______ itself.
Crime
_________ is an agreement to commit some other crime.
Conspiracy
The rule that the crime of ______ and the crime the individuals agree to commit are separate offenses known as the ______ rule.
Conspiracy, Pinkerton
______ presence at a crime isn’t accomplice actus reus.
Mere
Words can qualify as accomplice actus reus, if they…
Encourage and approve the commission of the crime
_______ liability is imposed for someone else’s acts.
Vicarious
Parent responsibility statutes are based on parents’ acts and…
Omissions
Criminal ________ are trying but failing to commit crimes.
Attempts
The word _______ comes from the Latin and means “to begin”.
Inchoate
The vast majority of current criminal codes have adopted what test’s language regarding attempt actus reus?
The MPC “substantial steps” test
Regarding attempt actus reus, which test asks whether defendants have come “dangerously close” to completing the crime?
The dangerous proximity to success test
What is the name of the Model Penal Code test of attempt actus reus?
The substantial steps test
What has occurred when actors intend to commit crimes, and do everything they can to carry out their criminal intent, but the criminal law doesn’t ban what they did?
A legal impossibility
A _______ impossibility occurs when actors intend to commit a crime and try to but some fact of circumstance - an extraneous factor - interrupts them to prevent the completion of the crime.
Factual
Defendants who voluntarily and completely renounce their criminal purpose can avoid criminal liability in most states by raising the defense of ________.
Abandonment
________ impossibility is NOT a defense to an attempt crime.
Factual
Conspiracy actus reus consists of 2 parts. What are they?
Overt and agreement
Conspiracy is a ________ intent crime.
Specific
