Unit 2 test Flashcards
What is Actus Reus
The physical element
actus reus is the guilty act or a wrongfull deed can also be the failure to do something. Must be shown to be proven
What is Mens Rea
The mental element
A guilty mind when a wrongful deed is comitted. Deals with motive intenet, and knowledge. Proving this is difficult
Specific intent
You know what you are doing is wrong and illegal. You are commiting the act with the express purposes of the end result. To prove this the athouritites must prove that a wrongful act was commited.
Negligence
Failing to take resonable care, as an ordanary person would do, where you have a duty or obligation; resulting in damage or injury to another. (Not shovelling snow no sidewalk and somone falling)
Gross Negligence
A reckless or purposeful indifference to the resonable saftey of others. A person has a duty of care and isn’t just carelesss about fufuilling the requirments but rather flagrantly ignores, and is willingfully blind, to the foreseeable danger.
Degree of negligence
Carelessness
Not giving sufficient thought to attention to avoiding harm or errors. Not intentional or malicious
Degree of negligence
Recklessness
Taking an unjustifiable risk, that a reasonable person would not take, that results, or may result in harm. (Weaving in and out of traffic on highways)
Degree of negligence
Knowledge (underling principle of mens rea)
The knowledge of certian circumstances or events can make a person legally, responsible for a criminal act or an accomplice to it. Understanding is implied when establishing knowledge
Foreseeablility
The ability to anticipate an event or predict the result/concequences of an action
Aspect of Knowledge
Willful Blindness
The deliberate or intentionale failure to acnoladge the potential concequences of an act
Aspect of Knowledge
Summary Conviction Offences
(Minor crime) They are criminal offences that can be dealt with summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment. Less serious, less time in court
Indictable Offences
require an indictment, a legal writ/document, from the courts to peruse the matter after a preliminary hearing. Serious cases that may require a jury trial.
Hybrid offences
Seriousness varies according to the circumstances of the offence. (Inbetween indicatble and summary conviction offences)
Custody
To be in the are/control of the authoritites
Detention
The process when the governemnt lawfully holds a person removing his or her freedom/liberty at that time. Less serious than arrest. You are entitled to legal council if detained
Criminal investigation
Begins the minute the police are aware/informed of a criminal act within the community.
Criminal case
Begins when the police formally charge the individual(s) with committing an offence.
Arrest
Legally deprive of liberty by seizing or touching the person to indicate that he or she is in custody. Detained with a purpose of charging with a crime
Charge
To make an accustaion against an individual in order to bring to trial.
Indict
A formal accusation (charge) indicating a criminal case required for serious crime, most often initiated by a writ/formal written statement
Resonable grounds
means the info would lead a resnonable person to conclude that the suspect has commited a criminal offence
Police and your rights against them
They can only arrest you if they have just cause or resonable grounds to do so. The police must follow due process. You have the right to be informed of your rights in case of arrest, and from ages 12-18 you have extra rights.
What is due process and concequences of police not following it
The police must follow “proper judicial procedure” referred to as due process.
If they don’t there are grounds for an appeal, inadmissibility of evidence, and complete dismissal of the charges
Citizen’s arrest
an arrest without a warrant by any person other than a peace officer. Rarely used as it can be used against them like charges of assault, and unlawful detention.
Questioning
Aka interrogation
they ask you questions.
Search and Seizure
Search laws must have warrant only items on the warrant can be taken. Unless there are stolen & illegal items present. Items can be help for 30 days max. No warrant is needed if you are arrested and you consent to the search.
Warrants
A legal form or document signed by a judge, giving the police the authority to do a certain action, such as placing someone under arrest.
Writ
A court document ordering someone to complete a particular task.
The police can issue an appreance notice, sumons, or a subpoena.
ALL WARRANTS ARE WRITS NOT ALL WRITS ARE WARRANTS
Parties to an offence:
Counsellors
an individual who initiates the idea of the crime that is to be committed or who advises the principal actor as to how to commit the crime.
Parties to an offence:
Perpetrators
The person who commits the physical act or crime. AKA: perp, principal actor, primary actor, or culprit. Possible for them to not be guilty i.e. an adult tells a kid to steal
Parties to an offence:
Co-conspirators
Anyone assiting in the PLANING or commition of a crime
Parties to an offence:
Conspiracy
An agreement between 2 or more people to do something illegal.
The act of planing the crime is the crime. Must be true intent to commit to act so jokes and fiction don’t count