Exam 3: Inside Criminal Law

____________________ is a defense for criminal liability that asserts a lack of criminal responsibility due to mental instability.

What degree of felony carries the maximum penalty of death?

State law prevails whenever it is in conflict with federal law.

Law may be broken down according to various classifications.Which of the following is not one of these classifications?

As a circumstance of murder,____ means that the offender considered the crime beforehand.

Murder,rape,and theft are examples of ____ crimes.

The facts surrounding an underlying crime are referred to as:

_______________ means that the guilty act and the guilty intent must occur together.

Criminal law concerns offenses that are against the society as a whole.

Misdemeanors are punishable by a fine or by confinement up to:

_______________ are the rules,orders,and decisions of regulatory agencies.

A homicide that results from the offender's carelessness,but occurs when the offender lacks intent is classified as:

Discuss the differences between civil law and criminal law

The accused party in both criminal and civil cases is known as the defendant.

Discuss the most important excuse defenses.

An inchoate offense is an attempted or incomplete offense.

A failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise would exercise in similar circumstances is ____________________.

Defendants who are found "guilty but mentally ill" do not serve criminal sentences.

Due process is addressed in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

_______________have a maximum penalty of death.