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felony murder
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the killing of someone during the commisiion of certain other dangerous felonies, regardless of intent to kill.
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date rape
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a sexual assult by someone known to the victim.
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First-Degree murder
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usually defined as a killing that is premeditated (thought beforehand)deliberate, and done with malice.
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Second-degree murder
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a killing that is done with malice,but without premediation or deliberation.
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Malice
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ill will; deliberate intent to harm someone.
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negligent homicide
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the causing of death through criminal negligence.
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Homicide
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the killing of another person. Homicide can be criminal, noncrimimal, or negligent.
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stalking
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occurs when a person repeated followed or harasess another person and makes threat, causing victim to fear death or bodliy injury.
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assult
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any attempt or threat to carry out a physical attack upon another person.
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suicide
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the deliberate takinng of one's own life, was once considered a crime.
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battery
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any unlawful physical contact inflicted by one person apon another without consent.
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negligence
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the failure to exercise a rasonable or ordinary amount of care in a situation 6that causes harm to a person.
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Voluntary Manslaughter
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a killinhg that would otherwise 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.
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statutory rape
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sexual intercourse by a male with a female who has not yet reaches the legal age of consent.
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involuntary manslaughter
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an unitentional killing resulting from conduct so reckless that it causes extreme danger of death or bodily injury.
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forcible rape
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the act of unlawful sexual intercourse comitted by a man with a woman by force and without her consent.
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