Penal Code - Test 2 Flashcards
Chapter 16 - 25
A child in sexual offenses is younger than?
17 years of age
(17 is the age of consent)
Restraint— the victim is a child who is ____or older and younger than____, the victim is taken outside the state and outside a _____radius from the victim’s residence
14 years of age
17 years of age
120 mile
When does the offense of unlawful restrain is a felony of second degree?
If A restrains PO/Judge on duty
Sec. 20.02. (3) notwithstanding Subdivision (2)(B), a felony of the second degree if the actor restrains an individual the actor knows is a peace officer or judge while the officer or judge is lawfully discharging an official duty or in retaliation or on account of an exercise of official power or performance of an official duty as a peace officer or judge.
A noncustodial parent commits an offense of _______________ … knowingly entices or persuades the child younger than ____ years of age to leave the custody of the custodial parent, guardian, or person standing in the stead of the custodial parent or guardian of the child.
Interference with Child Custody
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Sec. 25.03. INTERFERENCE WITH CHILD CUSTODY.
Joe gets out of Jail and is desperate to have sex. He ends up at the local park having sex with a duck he caught in the lake.
Bestiality
Sec. 25.072. REPEATED VIOLATION OF CERTAIN COURT ORDERS OR CONDITIONS OF BOND IN FAMILY VIOLENCE, CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT, SEXUAL ASSAULT OR ABUSE, STALKING, OR TRAFFICKING CASE.
(a) A person commits an offense if, during a period that is ____ months or less in duration, the person _______ times engages in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 25.07.
What category offense is murder as a result of sudden passion?
Second degree felony
(2-20 years + $10,000)
Manslaughter is the offense of ________ felony.
E.g. Speeding down a highway at 100+ mph. Lose control, crash, kill passenger(s).
Second degree felony
A person commits an offense of capital murder if the person commits murder and (remember the 9 ways):
1.
- knowingly, PO or firemen on duty;
- intentionally murders while committing another felony (kidnapping, burglary, robbery, agg sex assault, arson, obstruction, retaliation, terroristic threat);
- for (promise of) remuneration (murder for hire);
- while (attempting to) escaping from a penal institution;
- while incarcerated, murders another (employee, as gang initiation)
- while serving a life sentence;
- multiple murders during the same criminal transaction; or pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct (e.g. serial killers)
- murders an individual under 10 years of age; or
- murders a judge as a retalition.
Sec. 19.03. CAPITAL MURDER.
A device designed or manufactured for use by a locksmith to perform services for a customer who seeks entry into a structure, motor vehicle, or other property.
Ex. Lock pick, bump key, anything specifically designed to break into someone else’s property.
Mechanical security device
Sec. 16.01. UNLAWFUL USE OF CRIMINAL INSTRUMENT OR MECHANICAL SECURITY DEVICE.
In this section, “__________” means to leave a child in any place without providing reasonable and necessary care for the child, under circumstances under which no reasonable, similarly situated adult would leave a child of that age and ability.
abandon
Sec. 22.041. ABANDONING OR ENDANGERING CHILD.
(a) A person commits an offense of _________________ if, in violation of an order issued under Article 6.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, the person knowingly or intentionally:
(1) commits an offense under Title 5 Offenses Against Persons or Section 28.02 Arson, 28.03 Criminal Mischief, or 28.08 Graffiti and commits the offense because of bias or prejudice as described by Article 42.014, Code of Criminal Procedure;
(2) communicates (similar to Sec. 25.07 or see below)
…communicates directly with:
- a protected individual or family member
- through any person to a protected individual…
- in any manner prohibited by a protective order
(3) goes to or near the residence, employment, business…
Violation of Protective Order Preventing Offense Caused by Bias/Prejudice
= Hate Crime
Sec. 25.071. VIOLATION OF PROTECTIVE ORDER PREVENTING OFFENSE CAUSED BY BIAS OR PREJUDICE.
A person commits an offense of _________ if the person, with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of the actor, observes another person without the other person’s consent while the other person is in a dwelling or structure in which the other person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Voyeurism
the actor is in a motor vehicle, as defined by Section 501.002, Transportation Code, and:
(A) knowingly discharges a firearm at or in the direction of a habitation, building, or vehicle;
(B) is reckless as to whether the habitation, building, or vehicle is occupied; and
(C) in discharging the firearm, causes serious bodily injury to any person.
Aggravated Assault
A person commits an offense of ________________ if the person engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with another person (by blood or adoption) the actor knows to be, without regard to legitimacy.
- *Prohibited Sexual Conduct**
- (can’t arrest but can document except *)*
Voluntary = Incest
*Involuntary = Sexual Assault
Sec. 25.02. PROHIBITED SEXUAL CONDUCT
A person commits an offense if, without the other person’s ___and with intent to invade the privacy of the other person, the person: (1) photographs or by videotape or other electronic means records, broadcasts, or transmits a visual image of an intimate area of another person if the other person has a_____that the intimate area is not subject to public view;
(2) photographs or by videotape or other electronic means records, broadcasts, or transmits a visual image of another in a bathroom or changing room; or
(3) knowing the character and content of the photograph, recording, broadcast, or transmission, promotes a photograph, recording, broadcast, or transmission
consent
reasonable expectation
A person commits an offense if the person: intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly impedes the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of the person by applying pressure to the person’s throat or neck or by blocking the person’s nose or mouth.
Assault
Lisa abducts a child and demands a ransom for the child’s safe release. Lisa gets scared and, before the ransom is paid, releases the child unharmed. What category offense has Lisa committed?
- Class A misdemeanor
- State Jail Felony
- Third degree felony
- Second degree felony
- First degree felony
4 .Second degree felony
Trafficking of person not a child is what category offense?
Second degree felony
A person commits an offense of abandoning or endangering a child if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence (culpable mental states*), by act or omission, engages in conduct that places a child younger than _______ in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment.
* https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.6.htm
Examples: driving drunk with a child under ____ yrs old; boating with a child without a life vest
15 years
A person commits an offense if, with a child younger than____ , whether the child is of the same or opposite sex and regardless of whether the person knows the age of the child at the time of the offense, the person: (1) engages in sexual contact with the child or causes the child to engage in sexual contact; or (2) with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person: (A) exposes the person’s anus or any part of the person’s genitals, knowing the child is present; or (B) causes the child to expose the child’s anus or any part of the child’s genitals. (Def)?
17 years of age
Indecency with a child
Jane, a 15 year old female, confessed to her mother that she had sexual intercourse with her 17 year old boyfriend Dale. Jane’s mother became angry and called the police wanting to file charges on Dale. Which of the following, if any, do you believe the district attorney would accept?
- Aggravated Sexual Assault
- None of the listed are correct
- Indecency With a Child
- Sexual Assault
2. None of the listed are correct
Sec. 22.11. HARASSMENT BY PERSONS IN CERTAIN FACILITIES*; HARASSMENT OF PUBLIC SERVANT.
Actor causes contact of another person with b_____, s________ or v________ fluid, s________, u______, or f________ of the actor, any other person, or animal.
If a PO is spit on = _____________ (name the offense)
If a civilian is spit on = _____________ (name the offense)
*correctional, detention, civil commitment
blood, seminal or vaginal fluid, saliva, urine, or feces
Harrassment (Sec. 22.11)
Assault (Sec. 22.01)
Person commits an act of aggravated sexual assault if the Victim is younger than __years of age or the victim is ___ or disabled.
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elderly
A person commits an offense of manslaughter if he ______causes the death of an individual.
recklessly
Joe goes over to his new girlfriends house. He ends up alone in her daughters room and touches her between the legs.
Indecency with a Child
When does the offense of unlawful restrain is a felony of 3rd degree?
- V is exposed to SBI risk
- V is a PO/PS on duty
- A in custody restrains another
(c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, except that the offense is:
… (2) a felony of the third degree if:
(A) the actor recklessly exposes the victim to a substantial risk of serious bodily injury;
(B) the actor restrains an individual the actor knows is a public servant while the public servant is lawfully discharging an official duty or in retaliation or on account of an exercise of official power or performance of an official duty as a public servant; or
(C) the actor while in custody restrains any other person; or
(3) notwithstanding Subdivision (2)(B), a felony of the second degree if the actor restrains an individual the actor knows is a peace officer or judge while the officer or judge is lawfully discharging an official duty or in retaliation or on account of an exercise of official power or performance of an official duty as a peace officer or judge.
A twenty year old female has consensual sexual intercourse with her sixteen year old boyfriend who says he wants to marry her. What offense has occurred.
A: indecency with a child
B: lewd conduct
C: sexual assault
D: aggravated sexual assault
E: no offense committed
: sexual assault
At the punishment stage of trial, the defendant may raise the issue as to whether he caused the death under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from ______
(e.g. cheating spouse killed by a jealous spouse; father killing an intruder who’s assaulting father’s kids)
adequate cause
Which of the following would not constitute Capital Murder?
1) Murder of a fireman acting in performance of an official duty .
2) Murder during the commission of arson.
3) Murder for remuneration or promise of remuneration.
4) Murder during the commission of felony criminal mischief.
Murder during the commission of felony criminal mischief
The most serious crime that a person commits is “ ______________” if they intentionally kill another person while committing “arson”.
1) Criminally negligent homicide
2) Manslaughter
3) Capital Murder
4) Murder
Capital Murder
Restraint is ______if it is accomplished by force, intimidation, or deception; or by any means, including acquiescence of the victim if the victim is a child younger than ____.
without consent
14 years of age
The most serious crime that a person commits is “Capital Murder” if they murder a person under the age of _____ years of age.
- 12
- 10
- 8
- 6
- 7
10
Any touching of the anus, breast, or any part of the genitals of another person with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.
Sexual Contact
A person commits an offense of abandonding or endaring a child, if, having custody, care, or control of a child younger than ____ years, he intentionally abandons the child in any place under circumstances that expose the child to an unreasonable risk* of harm.
The element of risk along is very important.
15 years
Sec. 22.041 (b) ABANDONING OR ENDANGERING CHILD.
It is no offense to detain or move another under the unlawful restrain section when it is for the purpose of effecting a ________ or ______.
lawful arrest or detaining
What is criminal homicide?
How many types are there?
19.01 Criminal homicide - anything that is to cause the death of an individual.
- Murder
- Capital Murder
- Manslaughter
- Negligent Homicide
To restrict a person’s movements without consent, so as to interfere substantially with the person’s ______, by moving the person from one place to another or by _____the person
liberty
confining
Trafficking of person who is a child is what category offense?
First degree
Sec. 25.11. CONTINUOUS VIOLENCE AGAINST THE FAMILY.
(a) A person commits an offense if, during a period that is ___ months or less in duration, the person __________ times engages in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 22.01(a)(1) Assault against another person or persons whose relationship to or association with the defendant is described by Section 71.0021(b) Dating Violence, 71.003 Family, or 71.005 Household, Family Code.
A person commits an offense of ______________ if __________ of its character and with the intent to use a criminal instrument or mechanical security device or aid or permit another to use the instrument or device in the commission of an offense, the person manufactures, adapts, sells installs or sets up the instrument or device.
unlawful use of criminal instrument or mechanical security device
with knowledge
Sec. 16.01. UNLAWFUL USE OF CRIMINAL INSTRUMENT OR MECHANICAL SECURITY DEVICE
A person “transports” several young Mexican men with the intent of forcing them to labor in fruit orchards in south Texas. What crime, if any, has occurred?
- Unlawful Transport
- Trafficking of Persons
- Kidnapping
- Unlawful Restraint
Trafficking of Persons
A person commits an offense if: (1) without the____ of the depicted person, the person intentionally discloses visual material depicting another person with the person’s intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct;
(2) the visual material was obtained by the person or created under circumstances in which the depicted person had a _____that the visual material would remain private;
(3) the disclosure of the visual material causes harm to the depicted person; and
(4) the disclosure of the visual material reveals the identity of the depicted person in any manner, including through:
(A) any accompanying or subsequent information or material related to the visual material; or
(B) information or material provided by a third party in response to the disclosure of the visual material.
effective consent
reasonable expectation
It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under section21.11 (Indecency with a child) that the actor: (1) was not more than _____than the victim and of the opposite sex; (2) did not use duress, force, or a threat against the victim at the time of the offense; and (3) at the time of the offense:
(A) was not required, to register for life as a sex offender; or
(B) was not a person who had a reportable conviction or adjudication for an offense under this section.
three years older
A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly restrains another person. According to the Texas Penal Code 20.02, this is the definition of:
- Aggravated Kidnapping
- Unlawful Restraint
- Restraint
- Aggravated Restraint
- Kidnapping
Unlawful Restraint
_____________ actions or agreements made by persons affected by a protective order do not affect the validity of the order or the duty of a peace officer to enforce this section (i.e. SHALL arrest)
Reconciliatory
Violation of Protective Order Preventing Offense Caused by Bias/Prejudice (aka Hate Crime) is a Class ___ misdemeanor.
….unless it is shown on the trial of the offense that the defendant has previously been convicted two or more times or …. committing an assault, in which event the offense is a _____ degree felony.
Class A misdemeanor
($4,000, jail up to one year or both)
Third degree felony
(2-10 years + $10,000)
___________ means passion directly caused by and arising out of provocation by the individual killed or another acting with the person killed which passion arises at the time of the offense and is not solely the result of former provocation.
Sudden Passion
A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another, including the person’s spouse;
(2) intentionally or knowingly threatens another with imminent bodily injury, including the person’s spouse; or
(3) intentionally or knowingly causes physical contact with another when the person knows or should reasonably believe that the other will regard the contact as offensive or provocative.
Assault
When does the offense of unlawful restrain have an affirmative defense to prosecution?
Under two sets of conditions:
- Child < 14 yrs
- A is a relative
- A assumes lawful control
AND
- Child 14-17 yrs
- A did not usef force, intimidation, deception
- A ≥ 3 yrs than the child (e.g. highschool love birds)
(b) It is an affirmative defense (doesn’t affect the arresting authority guidelines) to prosecution under this section that:
(1) the person restrained was a child younger than 14 years of age;
(2) the actor was a relative of the child; and
(3) the actor’s sole intent was to assume lawful control of the child.
AND
(e) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that:
(1) the person restrained was a child who is 14 years of age or older and younger than 17 years of age;
(2) the actor does not restrain the child by force, intimidation, or deception; and
(3) the actor is not more than three years older than the child
* P.C. Title 5, Chapter 20, Sec. 20.02*
* https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.20.htm*
A person commits an offense ___________ if the person takes or retains a child younger than _____years of age:
(1) … violates the express terms of a judgment or order… of a court disposing of the child’s custody;
(2) when the person has not been awarded custody of the child … and takes the child out of the geographic area of the counties composing the judicial district …and with the intent to deprive the court of authority over the child; or
(3) outside of the United States…
Interference with Child Custody
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Sec. 25.03. INTERFERENCE WITH CHILD CUSTODY
What conditions make restrain “without consent”?
Force, intimidation, deception + any means for
V < 14 yrs or
V is incompetent (any age)
V is 14-17 yrs + outside the state + 120-ml radius from V’s residence
Restraint is “without consent” if it is accomplished by:
(A) force, intimidation, or deception; or
(B) any means, including acquiescence of the victim, if:
(i) the victim is a child who is less than 14 years of age or an incompetent person (any age) and the parent, guardian, or person or institution acting in loco parentis has not acquiesced in the movement or confinement; or
(ii) the victim is a child who is 14 years of age or older and younger than 17 years of age, the victim is taken outside of the state and outside a 120-mile radius from the victim’s residence, and the parent, guardian, or person or institution acting in loco parentis has not acquiesced in the movement.
* P.C. Title 5, Chapter 20, Sec. 20.01*
Female breast” means
any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola.
Offense: Engages in sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual contact whether another is present who will be offended or alarmed
Public Lewdness
A person commits an offense if, during a period that is ___ or more days in duration, the person engages two or more times in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 20A.02 Trafficking of Persons against one or more victims.
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A person commits the offense of _______________ if the person knowingly or intentionally:
(1) commits family violence or 20A.02 Trafficking of Persons, 22.011 Sex Assault, 22.021 Agg Sex Assault, or 42.072 Stalking
(2) communicates directly with:
- a protected individual or family member
- through any person to a protected individual…
- in any manner with the protected individual… except through the person’s attorney…;
(3) goes to or near:
- the residence, employment, business…
- child care facility, residence, or school….
(4) possesses a firearm;
(5) harms, threatens, or interferes with the care, custody, or control of a pet…
(6) …otherwise tampers with a global positioning monitoring system (ankle monitor)
Sec. 25.07. VIOLATION OF CERTAIN COURT ORDERS OR CONDITIONS OF BOND IN A FAMILY VIOLENCE, CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT, SEXUAL ASSAULT OR ABUSE, STALKING, OR TRAFFICKING CASE.
A twenty-five year old female has consensual sexual intercourse with a sixteen year old boy. What offense has occurred?
no offense because boy agreed to the act
Aggravated Sexual Assault
Deviate Sexual Intercourse
Sexual Assault
Sexual Assault
A person commits an offense if, during a period that is ___ or more days in duration, the person engages two or more times in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 20.05 (Def)?
When is unlawful restraint a felony of the third degree?
Victim is exposed to a substantial risk of SBI or
the person restraint is a public servant on duty
Under Sec. 22.041 Abandoning or Endangering Child, It is presumed that a person engaged in conduct that places a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment if:
(1) the person manufactured, possessed, or in any way introduced into the body of any person the controlled substance ____________ in the presence of the child;
(3) the person injected, ingested, inhaled, or otherwise introduced a controlled substance listed in ___________ Section 481.102, Health and Safety Code, into the human body when the person was not in lawful possession of the substance as defined by Section 481.002(24) of that code.
____________means anything, the possession, manufacture, or sale of which is not otherwise an offense, that is specially designed, made, or adapted for use in the commission of an offense.
Criminal instrument
the actor has intentionally impaired the other person’s power to appraise or control the other person’s conduct by administering any substance without the other person’s knowledge
Sexual Assault
Anything, the possession, manufacture, or sale of which is not otherwise an offense, that is specially designed, made, or adapted for use in the commission of the offense.
Ex. Coat hanger to break into car; if you catch them before the act
Criminal Instrument
Sec. 16.01. UNLAWFUL USE OF CRIMINAL INSTRUMENT OR MECHANICAL SECURITY DEVICE.
What offense is committed when a person intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual?