Exam 11: Offenses Against Justice Administration

To offer, give, solicit, receive; a thing of value; to (or by) a public official; that is against statutory limits is considered ______.

A person commits ______ if, believing that an official proceeding or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, he attempts to induce or otherwise cause a witness or informant to testify or inform falsely.

Avoiding or fleeing, from arrest, without violence is ______.

At common law, an individual had a right to use reasonable resistance to prevent being arrested illegally.

Not all states have a separate evading arrest statute.

If one makes a false statement, with a general intent to lie, in any legal proceeding, one has committed ______.

Once custody is established, voluntary departure can constitute an escape, even if the person is not in jail or prison.

This is defined as false statement (testimony), under oath, about a material element, in a judicial proceeding.

Obstruction of justice charge is a catchall that can cover a multitude of behaviors, including interfering with an arrest, hiding evidence, or malfeasance of office on the part of a justice official.

If one enticed another to make a false statement under oath, about a material element, in a judicial proceeding, and this took place, one would be guilty of:

To impede, prevent, delay, obstruct; justice official; from performing official functions in the administration of justice is to commit ______.

At common law, ______ was a criminal offense for any person to willfully disregard the summons of the sheriff to render assistance in apprehending a felon.

If someone destroyed a company memo to make it appear as though a company had not knowingly engaged in fraud, in order to deceive investigators into thinking that a crime had occurred, they have ______.

Offenses against justice administration include all of the following EXCEPT:

If a judge or other officer connected with the administration of justice receives an undue reward to influence behavior in his office, the following crime has been committed:

If one departs voluntarily from custody and does not intend to return, it is known as ______.

The common law offense of one who, being lawfully in custody, escapes from the place where he is confined, by the employment of force and violence is called ______.

At common law, perjury was limited to the false oath in a ______.

The third and least serious crime in the three related crimes of escape, resisting, and evading is ______.

At common law, the crime of escape did not include the situation in which an officer voluntarily allows a prisoner to escape.