Criminal Liability

Question 1

An act of crime is committed with intent if?

Answer 1

A criminal offense is committed with intent if a person conceives a plan to achieve a certain

result, or acquiesces the consequences of his conduct

Question 2

An act of crime of criminal negligence?

Answer 2

An act of crime is committed by criminal negligence where the perpetrator is able to

anticipate the possible consequences of his conduct, but carelessly relies on their nonoccurrence, or fails to foresee such possible consequences through conduct characterized by

carelessness and neglectfulness

Question 3

5 types of penalties in criminal law?

Answer 3

Imprisonment

§ Custodial arrest

§ Community service work

§ Fine

§ Prohibition to exercise professional activity

Question 4

Definition of “Prohibition to exercise professional activity”. ?

Answer 4

May be imposed upon a person who has committed a criminal offense through the violation

of the rules of his/her profession requiring professional qualifications or knowingly, by using

his profession

Question 5

Definition of malpractice?

Answer 5

Any person who engages in misconduct in the course of engaging in his profession
thus causing imminent danger to the life, bodily integrity or health of another person
or persons by his failure to act with responsible care, or causes bodily harm, is guilty of
a misdemeanor
§ The penalty shall be higher if the criminal offense results in permanent physical
disability or a serious health impairment, or a mass catastrophe; in death; or in a fatal
mass catastrophe
§ Any person who is responsible for causing imminent danger willfully is guilty of a
felony

Question 6

Criminal offenses with toxic substances/Definition of misuse of poison?

Answer 6

Any person who without proper authorization – prepares, processes, uses or distributes

poison, or who fails to take the measures prescribed for the prevention of any illegal use of

poisons, or for the protection of others in guilty of a misdemeanor, insofar as the act did not

result in a more serious criminal offense.

Question 7

Criminal offense with harmful consumer goods?

Answer 7

Any person who prepares or possesses any consumer goods for the purpose of

distribution, that is harmful to health, is guilty of a misdemeanor

§ The person who committed the criminal offenses shall not be prosecuted if he makes

every effort, upon gaining knowledge of the harmful nature of the consumer goods, to

regain possession of the harmful consumer goods in question, or to prevent their

being placed on the market

§ Any person who places harmful consumer goods on the market is guilty of a felony or

who commits the criminal offense by way of negligence shall be punishable for

misdemeanor

Question 8

Define perjury.

Answer 8

Any witness who gives false testimony before the authority concerning an essential

circumstance of a case, or suppresses evidence is guilty of perjury

§ Gives false opinion as an expert or false information as a special adviser

§ Falsely translates as an interpreter or a translator

§ Presents a false document or manipulated physical evidence in criminal or civil

proceedings

Any person who commits perjury by way of negligence shall be punishable for a misdemeanor

Question 9

Organization of illegal animal fights?

Answer 9

Any person involved in the organization of fights using vertebrate animals, or in

making arrangements for betting or placing bets on such animal fight, is guilty of a

felony

§ Any person involved in acquiring, keeping, breeding, training, domesticating or

trafficking of vertebrate animals for the purpose of fights is guilty of misdemeanor

Question 10

Cruelty to animals?

Answer 10

Any person who is engaged in the unjustified abuse or unjustified mistreatment of vertebrate
animals resulting in permanent damage to the animal’s health or in the animal’s destruction
§ or who abandons, dispossess or expels a domesticated vertebrate animal or a
dangerous animal is guilty of a misdemeanor.
The penalty for a felony shall be higher, if the criminal offense is carried out in a manner to
cause undue suffering to the animal, or results in permanent damage to several animals or in
the destruction of more than one animal

Question 11

Violation of epidemic control regulations?

Answer 11

Any person who breaches epidemiological measures introduced for the prevention of the

spreading – within or across the border – of infectious animal diseases or for the eradication

of such is punishable for misdemeanor