General Principles

Question 1

Specific Intent Crimes defined

Answer 1

requires desire to do the act AND the desire to achieve a specific result

Question 2

What are the SI crimes?

Answer 2

assault, murder in the first degree, larceny, embezzlement, false pretenses, conspiracy, robbery, forgery, burglary, attempt, solicitation

Question 3

Malice

Answer 3

requires reckless disregard of an obvious high risk that harmful result would occur - common law murder

Question 4

general intent

Answer 4

requires awareness of factors that establish the crime

Question 5

general intent crimes

Answer 5

battery, rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment, arson

Question 6

strict liability

Answer 6

requires simply doing the act - no mental state is required

Question 7

strict liability offenses

Answer 7

statutory rape, selling liqour to minor, bigamy

Question 8

acts

Answer 8

all voluntary bodily movements that are physical

Question 9

omissions

Answer 9

failure to act can be the basis for criminal liability like when there was a legal duty to act, or knowledge of the facts that give rise to a duty or the ability to help

Question 10

legal duty to act

Answer 10

created in 5 ways: statute, contract, status relationship (spouses, parent-child), voluntary assumption of care, or creation of peril