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10 Cards in this Set
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Crimes Against Persons |
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Homicide and Related Offenses |
1. 1st degree murder 2. 2nd degree murder 3. Manslaughter 4. Criminally negligent homicide 5. Vehicular homicide |
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1st Degree Murder: CRS 18-3-102 -Class 1 Felony |
• Intentionally causes the death of another person. • After deliberation. • Means committed after reflection and thought. • NOT upon impulse |
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Take your victim as you find them |
Victims suffering from infirmities that die as a result of the accused’s conduct can give rise to a 1st degree murder charge |
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Independent Intervening Cause |
To warrant a homicide charge, the death must be the natural and probable consequence of an unlawful act in which the offender participates |
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Felony Murder Rule: CRS 18-3-102(1)(b) -Class 1 Felony |
• Offender while committing or attempting to commit • Arson, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, sexual assault or crime of escape Anyone caused • The death of another person, other than one of the participants |
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Felony Murder Statutory defense: show all of the following |
o not the only participant in crime; o did not solicit, command or encourage, cause or aid in the commission of the act; o not armed with a deadly weapon; o did not have reason to believe another o participant was armed with a deadly weapon, instrument, article or substance. |
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Perjury: CRS 18-3-102(1)(c) - Class 1 Felony |
• Offender caused conviction and execution of • An innocent person • Because offender perjured himself or suborned (got another to commit perjury) |
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Extreme Indifference To Value Of Human Life CRS 18-3-102 (1)(d) - Class 1 Felony |
Offender under circumstances evidencing an attitude of universal malice • Knowingly • Engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death to persons other than himself |
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Death Caused By Drugs Sold to Minors Upon/Near School Grounds CRS 18-3-102 (1)(e) - Class 1 Felony |
• Offender, knowingly • Distributed/dispensed/sold • A controlled substance • To a person under 18 • Upon or within 1000 feet of public or private elementary/vocational/junior high/high school • And the death of such person was caused by the use of the controlled substance |
