st law 2
Terms
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- Battery
- Is any unlawful
- Malice
- ill will;deliberate intent to harm someone
- Suiside
- The deliberaate taking of one's own life.
- second degree murder
- Is a killing that is done with malice , but without premediation or deliberation
- Noncriminal homicide
- Is as killing that justifiable or excusableand for which the killer is deemed faultless.
- Homicide
- The killing of a another person
- Assault
- Attempt or threat to carry out a physical attack upon another person.
- Felony murder
- Is any killing that takes place during the commision of certain felonies, such as arson, rape, robbery,or burglary.
- Involuntary manslaughter
- Is an unintentional killing resulting from conduct so reckless that it causes extreme danger of death or bodily injury.
- Voluntary manslaughter
- Is a killing that would be murder but that occurs after the victim has done something to the killer that would cause a reasonable person to lose self control or act rashly.
- Negligent homicide
- Is the causing of death through criminal negligence
- First degree murder
- A killing that is premeditated deliberate and done with malice.
- Negligence
- The failure to exercise a reasonable or ordinary amount of care in a situation that causes harm to someone