Legal class test 2
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- Inchoate offense
- incomplete offence
- Attempt
- an effort to accomplish a particular purpose
- Overt act
- a substantal step toward the completion of a crime
- Solicitation
- asking another to perform or aid in the commission of a crime
- conspiracy
- an agreement by two or more persons to accomplish a criminal act or to use unlawful means to complete a legal act.
- Stalking
- a person commits stalking when he or she knowingly, in atlest 2 seperate occasions, follows another person or places the person under surveillance
- Homicide
- taking of another's life. either murder or manslaughter
- Murder (commonlaw)
- requires malice aforethought
- Manslaughter (commonlaw)
- requires no malice
- 1st degree murder
- must have premeditiation
- felony murder
- when a murder occures unintentionally as a result of an action during another felony
- 2nd degree murder
- the unlawful killing of a person while in a state of depraved mind or heart
- excusable homicide
- an extreme form of self defence to murder in which the intended target kills the attacker.
- justifiable homicide
- occurs when a person carries out a death sentence by court order or other legal duties.
- specific defence to homicide
- heat of passion. used to show lack of reasonable care or in accadental killings.
- Rape shield law
- disallows the use of a victems prior sexual activities
- child abuse
- the physical or psychological endangerment of a child
- False imprisonment
- the forable holding of a person aginst their will.
- kidnapping
- forcibly abducting and taking a person to another area.
- child snatching
- a specific form of kidnapping preformed by a parent.
- Hate crimes
- offenses motivated by the bias aginst a person's race,sex,disability,ect.
- Larceny
- the wrongful taking of anothers property with the intent to permanently deprive
- False pretenses
- the accused obtains wares by false pretenses and with the intent to cheat or defraud the other person
- robbery
- taking of anothers personal property, from another persons possession or presences by force or plaing the person in fear with intent to permantly deprive
- Burglary
- breaking and entering of a dwelling or another during the nighttime with the intent to commit a felony therein
- Arson
- 1)the willful and malicious 2)burning of a dwelling 3)of another
- Fornication
- sexual intercourse between unmarried people
- adultery
- is the sexual intercourse between two people when atleast one is married to another person
- prostitution
- a person who indulges in sexual activity for hire
- indecent exposure
- the willful exposure of one genitals to the public or to another person
- obscenity
- person promotes or possesses with intent to promote any obscene material or produces, presents or directs performance in a portion thereof.
- Profanity
- a person may not profanely curse and swear or use obscene language upon or near any public stucture, or do so in a disorderly manner
- Gambing
-
1)consideration
2)prize
3)chance not skill - prohivition
- 18th ammendment 1920
- repealed prohibition
- 21st ammendment 1933
- Public drunkenness
- intoxicated from the voluntary use of intoxicating liquors while in public
- Disorderly intoxication
- has mostly replaced public intoxication. requres the person to be activly causing problems while intoxicated in public
- DWI, DUI, DUBAL
- driving while intoxicated (alchol only) Driving under the influence (alchol and drugs) Ariving with an unlawful blood alcohol level
- actual possession
- the item in question is either on or under direct control of the possessor
- constructive possession
- if the person how ownership, control, or dominion over the contraband itself OR over the premises in which it is concealed
- drug court
- a form of semi-house arrest for non-violent drug offenders. acts as an intervention program as well as a punishment
- White collor crimes
- crime in which a person of an upper socioeconomic status is more likly to commit. non-violent crimes.
- Antitrust violations
- price fixing, bid rigging
- bid rigging
- interfering with competitive bidding for award of a contract.
- Mail fraud
- a scheme devised or intended to defraud or obtain money or property by fraudulent means. th euse or causing to use the mail in futherence of the fraudulent scheme.
- money laundering
- disguising illegal income to make it appear legitimate
- insider trading
- using non-public information to trade securities without first disclosign that information to the public
- churning
- making transactions in a customers account for the sole purpose of creating commissions for the broker
- Racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations (RICO)
- prohibits the infiltration of legitimate orginizations by racketeers where foreign or interstate commerce is affected.
- Pattern of racketeering
- requres proof of at least two acts of racketerring within ten years excluding time imprisoned (used in RICO)
- Predicate acts
- Any act that can be used to establish a pattern of racketeering