Exam 6: Parties to Crime and Vicarious Liability

What provides that being present and watching the commission of a crime is not sufficient to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability?

While individuals cannot be liable for simply being in the presence of a crime, State v. Walden illustrates an exception to the rule because the defendant allowed an acquaintance to brutally beat her young son. This exception arises where defendants possess ______.

What is the essence of accessory after the fact according to the Model Penal Code?

______ laws hold adults liable for providing liquor in their home to minors.

______ liability holds individuals responsible who affirmatively aid and abet a criminal act with a purposeful intent.

Both principals and accessories were punishable as felons under what?

______ is the perpetrator of the crime.

The requirement of purposeful conduct in the mens rea of accomplice liability is the result of which case?

Under modern law, both principals and accessories are punishable as felons.

______ assist those who are present and carry out the crime.

What is derivative liability?

The ______ rule provides that being present and watching the commission of a crime is not sufficient to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability.

Why do we have vicarious liability laws?

Derivative liability is the term for the primary perpetrator's guilt flowing from the acts of the accessories of the crime.

Which case recognized that although the defendant did not intend to kill the victim, he committed the robbery in which it took place, and the murder was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the defendant's participation in the robbery?

What is the mens rea of accomplice liability?

Vicarious liability is used to hold the owners of automobiles liable for traffic tickets issued to their automobiles.

Individuals who assist in the commission of a crime are held liable for the criminal conduct of the perpetrator of the offense.

Parental responsibility statutes do not hold parents responsible for the failure to take reasonable steps to prevent their children from engaging in serious or persistent criminal behavior.

What is the difference between accessory after the fact and the principal in the first degree?