General Principles

Question 1

felony

Answer 1

cr punishable by death or imprisonment for 1y +

Question 2

misdemeanor

Answer 2

cr punishable by imprisonment for less than 1y or by a fine only

Question 3

void-for-vagueness doctrine can make stats void when/ under

Answer 3

when they’re not specific enough that a reasonable person of normal intelligence would have “fair notice” of what conduct is prohibited.
DPC of 5A & 14A

Question 4

elements of all crimes

Answer 4

actus reus (vol/ guilty act)
mens rea (guilty mind)
concurrence in time
causation (CIF + proximate)

Question 5

a person acts knowingly when

Answer 5

he knows the nature and/or result of his conduct

Question 6

a person acts intentionally when

Answer 6

he desires that his acts cause certain conseq or knows that his acts are substantially certain to produce those consequences

Question 7

habitual act vs reflexive act- when do they satisfy the actus reus el

Answer 7

habitual acts= satisfy AR/ can be prosecuted

reflexive acts= do not satisfy/ cannot be prosecuted

Question 8

a person acts purposely when

Answer 8

there exists a conscious objective to engage in such conduct or to cause such a result

Question 9

a person acts recklessly when

Answer 9

he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifable risk that the material el exists or will result from his conduct

Question 10

specific intent crimes require that D

Answer 10

• wants/ hopes/ wishes that his conduct will bring about a particular result, regardless of how likely the result is to happen
• expects that his purposeful act will have the particular result, even if he doesn’t particularly want it
• 1d murder, theft crimes, burglary, inchoate crimes

Question 11

general intent crimes require that D

Answer 11

commission of an unlawful act without a specific mens rea

rape, batterly, kidnapping, false imprisonment, invol manslaughter, depraved heart murder

Question 12

malice crimes require that D

Answer 12

act intentionally or with reckless disregard of an obvious or known risk that a particular harmful result will occur
-murder and arson

Question 13

strict liability crimes require that

Answer 13

D doin the act that is required by the stat. no mens rea req

Question 14

to find proximate cause,

Answer 14

resulting harm must be within the risk created by D’s conduct in crimes involving recklessness,

or sufficiently similar to that intended in crimes requiring intent,

so as not to hold D liable for extraordinary results.