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70 Cards in this Set
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Decina
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epileptic driver
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martin
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public intoxication
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newton
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killing while unconscious
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jones v. la
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being homeless
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pope v. state
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statutory duty of care
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jones v. us
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status relationship
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montoya and muro
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causation v wouldve died anyways
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acosta
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two helicopter crash
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brady
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two plane crash putting out D's fire
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arzon
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two fires: d's conduct does have to be sole cause
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kibbe
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sufficient to prove cause if ultimate harm was forseen
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actus reus
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voluntary act or omission when there is legal duty
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mens rea
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purpose knowledge recklessness negligence
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causation
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but for cause + not too remote or accidental
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murder
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purpose knowledge or extreme recklessness
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felony murder
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extreme recklessness presumed if committing felony
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Regina v. serne
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act that is likely in itself to cause death done for purpose of committing felony which causes death is murder
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State v. Canola
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agency theory: killing must've been done by D or accomplice in furtehrance of felonies
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Stamp
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roximate cause: eggshell skull strictly liable for any deaths committed during felony
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manslaughter
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reckless or murder but EED
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people v. hall
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ski instructor reckless
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Wlasnky
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night club fire reckless
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negligent homicide
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negligence,
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State v. Williams
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indian baby dies
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attempt
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purposely engages in conduct that’s crime if circumstances were as believes them to be or purposely does or omits to cause result, or purposely does or omits a substantial step
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Defense to attempt
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abandonment of effort or preventing commision of crime and complete and voluntary renunciation of criminal purpose
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No abandonment defense to attempt
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Johnston and McNeal
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Yes abandonment defense
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Ross
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Smallwood
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no specific intent to murder HIV case no attempt
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Hinkhouse
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HIV case specific intent shown attempt
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Girouard
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provocation: words alone are insufficient rule based
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Maher
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standard based provocation msut be reasonable
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Bordeaux
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cooling time if long period between provocation and muder then cannot be defense
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necessity
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is truly lesser of two evils as determined objectively by judge/jury and no other exception or defense available but not available if actor was reckless or negligent in bringing situation and calculating necessity
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Unger
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no imminence requirement for necessity, expanded to prinson escape
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Leno
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direct civil disobedience determined not necessity defense
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schoon
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indirect civil disobedienece breaking a different law than one being challenged
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mistakes
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of fact if negates mens rea and of law if statute not known or published not available if had things been as he supposed
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duress
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if coerced by force, threat to use, unlawful force that a person of reasonable firmness in his situation would not be able to resist, not available if actor recklessly/negligently placed himself in situation in which it was probable that he would be subject to duress
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Toscano
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no imminence requirement for duresss
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self defense and defense of others
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if actor believes force is immediately necessary but not justifiable if actor provoked the use of harm in same interaction or knows he can avoid force also not abailable if belief is erroneous recklesss or negligent
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self defense time framing
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goetz v. zimmerman
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norman
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battered woman self defense requires imminence
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stand your ground statutes
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permit meeting force with force including deadly force even when retreat is possible if one believes it's necessary to use it to prevent death or great bodily harm
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perfect v. imperfect self defense
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reasonably v. honestly but unreasonably believed it was necessary
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insanity
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at time of criminal conduct he lacks substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality (cognitive disability) or lacks substantial capacity to conform his conduct to law (volitionaal incpacity)
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Lyons
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only accepts cognitive prong
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m'naghten
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adds volitional incapacity to insanity
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durham
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allows insanity defense whenever D's conduct was product of mental disease or defect
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intoxication
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if not self induced or is patholocical then affirmative defnese
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complicity
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acting with culpability causes innocent or irresponsible person to engage in conduct and person is accomplice when with purpose solicits, aids, agrees or attempts to aid, or has legal duty to prevent commission but fails to make proper effrots and for result crime must be accomplice and act with culpability regarding result
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Analysis steps for result crime complicity
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deterime P's responsibility, whether D solicited aided conduct with purpose, if conduct caused the result of the crime, and if S acted with culpability regarding the result
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Cannot be accomplice
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if victim, if conduct is inevitably incident or terminates complicity prior to commission and gives timely warning or makes proper efforts to prevent comission
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Gladsotone
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communication is insufficient to show aiding
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Luparello
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accomplice can be charged with ofense the principal is charged with as long as it was reasonably foreseeable; asks friends to get info from V at any cost
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Roy
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D told undercover cop to talk to K to buy firearm but K decides to rob cop but no accomplice liability for armed robbery bc unforseeable
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conspiracy
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with purpose he agrees to the conduct, attempt or solicitation or to aid in planning or committing crime , need overt act unless felony
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scope of conspiracy
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if conspirator knows that person hes conpiring with is also conpisring with another person then will be guilty of conspiring with other persons
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defenses to conspiracy
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renunciation if after conspiring thwarts the success of conspiracy under circumstances manifesting complete and voluntary renunciation of prupose
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interstate circuit
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tacit areement ok for conspiracy, movie theatre anti trust
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lauria
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intent can be inferred from knowledge although knowledge alone may be insufficient; phone answering service for prositutes
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Pinkerton
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every conspirator liable for any criminal offense committed by co-conspirator in furthernace of conspiracy or whats reasonably foreseeable
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bridges
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expands pinkerton to hold liable for things outside scope of conspiracy if foreseeable as natural consequence
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alvarez
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narrows pinkerton to charge only non minor conspirators
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rusk
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lightly chokes, takes keys, proof of force requird must show either resistence or prevention of resistence, focuses on victim's reasonable fear
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depetrillo
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psychological force doesn’t fulfill force requirement
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mts
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force inherent to sexual penetration and absence of affirmative consent is sufficient to show non consent
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mistake of fact defense for frape
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available if defendnat's error for consent was honest and reasonable
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sherry
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defense of mistake of fact not allowed bc mistake must be objectively reasonable woman taken to doctors home
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fischer
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not granted mistake of fact but available if reasonably but mistakenly believed that V was consenting to his sexual advances they could find him not guilty
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