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38 Cards in this Set
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Renunciation means ____.
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Attempts to commit an offense but abandons the attempt & reounces the effort before the offense is actually committed.
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What is a pen register?
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A pen register is an electronic device that records all numbers dialed from a particular phone line. Term has come to include any device or program that performs similar functions to an original pen register, including programs monitoring Internet communications.
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Barratry means
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Persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless
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General definitions are listed in section ____, which includes 48 definitions.
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PC 1.07
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Act
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a bodily movement, whether voluntary or involuntary, & includes speech.
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Actor
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a person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action. Whenever the term suspect is used in this code, it means actor.
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Agency
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includes authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, department, district, division, & office.
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Alcoholic beverage
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has the meaning assiged by section 1.04 of Alcoholic Beverage Code. (Alcohol, or any beverage containing more than 1/2 of 1% of alc by volume, which is capable of bieng used for beverage purposes, either alone or when diluted.
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Another
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means a person other than the actor.
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Association
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means a gov't or other governmental subdivision or agency, trust, partnership, or 2 or more persons having a joint or common economic interest.
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Benefit
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means anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or adavantage, including benefit to any other person in whose welfare the beneficiary is interested.
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Bodily injury
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means phsyical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition.
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Coercion
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a threat, however communicated, to commit an offense, to inflict bodily injury in future person threatened or another; to accuse a person of any offense; to expose a person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule; to harm the credit or business repute; or take or withold action as a public servant, or cause a public servant to take or withold action.
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Conduct
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act or ommission & its accompanying mental state.
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Consent
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assent in fact, whether express or apparent.
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Corporation
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includes non-profit corp., professional associations created pursuant to statute,& joint stock companies.
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Correctional Facility
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a place designated by law for confinement of a person arrested/charged/convicted of a criminal offense. The term includes municipal or county jail, a confinement facility operated by or under contract w/TDCJ, or a community corrections facility operated by a community & corrections dept.
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Effective Consent
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includes consent by a person legally authorized to act for the owner. Consent is not effective if induced by force/threat/fraud; given by person actor knows & isn't legally authorized to act; given by person who by reason of youth, mental disease/defect, or intox is known by actor to be unable to make reasonable decisions; or given solely to detect the commmission of an offense.
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Inchoate means _____.
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Offense that is attempted & not completed.
Webster definition: 1. In an initial or early stage; incipient. 2. Imperfectly formed or developed: |
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Element of an offense
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forbidden conduct, the required culpability, the required result, & the negation of any exception to the offense.
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Government
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the state, a county, municipality, or political subdivision of the state; or any branch or agency of the state, a county, municipality, or political subdivision.
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Harm
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means anything reasonably regarded as loss, disadvantage, or injury, including harm to another person in whose welfare the person affected is interested.
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Law
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means the constitution of a statue of this State or of the US, a written opinion of a court of record, a municipal ordinance, an order of a county commissioner's court, or a rule authorized by & lawfully adopted under a statute.
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Misdemeanor
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means an offense so designed by law to be punishable by fine, by confinement in jail, or both.
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Oath
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includes affirmation
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Official proceeding
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means any type of administrative, executive, legislative, or judicial proceeding that may be conducted before a public servant.
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Omission
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means failure to act.
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Owner
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means a person who has title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property than the actor; or is a holder in due course of a negotiable instrument.
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Peace Officer
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means a person elected, employed, or appointed as a peace officer under Article 2.12 of CCP, Section 51.212 or 51.214 of the Education Code, or other law.
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Person
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means individual, corporation, or association.
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Possession
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means actual care, custody, control, or management.
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Public Place
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means any place which the public or a substantial group of the public has access & includes, but is not limited to streets & highways or the common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment houses, office buildings, transport facilities, & shops.
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Public Servant
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means a person who is elected, selected, appointed, employed, or otherwise designated as one of the following, even if they have not yet qualified for office or assumed duties: officer/employee/agent of gov't, juror/grand juror, arbitrator/referee auth. by law or private agreement, attorney/notary republic participating in gov't function, public office candidate, person performing gov't function under claim of right though not legally qualified.
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Reasonable belief
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means a belief that would be held by an ordinary & prudent person in the same circumstances as the actor.
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Serious bodily injury
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means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes death, serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.
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Swear
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includes affirm
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Unlawful
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means not authorized by law; illegal; criminally punishable. Criminal or tortuous or both & includes what would be criminal or tortuous but for a defense not amounting to justification or privilege.
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agent
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means a director, officer, employee, or other person authorized to act on behalf of a corporation or association. Sec. 7.21, P.C.
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