Exam 10: Offenses Against Public Peace

The actus reus for ______ is actual or constructive possession; transfer or delivery (does not have to be for money).

For the crime of failure to identify, police must ____ to arrest.

These statutes preserve the traditional objectives of apprehending those who are about to commit specific crimes or whose activities are offensive to the public-at-large while limiting possible abuse of broad police authority by setting forth specific standards for determining what conduct is prohibited:

This is an actual beginning of the execution of an unlawful common purpose, or the execution of an unlawful purpose by an assembly that was lawful when its members first assembled:

Alcoholism cannot be used as a defense for public intoxication, but drunkenness can be used as a defense for any crime.

The actus reus for ______ is actual or constructive possession, with circumstances indicating intent is to deliver.

This is an unlawful assembly that has moved toward the execution of the common purpose of the persons assembled:

There was no offense known as "disorderly conduct" at common law.

The common law crime of vagrancy basically criminalized poverty.

There was no common law crime of ______.

Assuming the state has this statute, the crime occurs when a police officer, with reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is about to be committed, requests a person's identity and they refuse to give it:

______ occurs when a person incites or encourages other persons to create or engage in a riot.

This is the incitement to overthrow the government:

The actus reus for ______ is defined as fighting, offensive language, or other hazardous or dangerous actions-all must tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.

The U.S. Constitution limits state power to enact or enforce legislation that prohibits the free exercise of individual behaviors.

This statute provides a penalty for appearing in public under the influence of alcohol, narcotics, or other drugs, not therapeutically administered. It also requires that the influence be to the degree that the person charged may endanger himself or other persons or property, or annoy persons in his vicinity:

Making a telephone call without purpose of legitimate communication; insulting, taunting, or challenging another in a manner likely to provoke violent or disorderly response; or making repeated communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language are all examples of:

This act defines a large number of drugs and categorized them by level of risk and seriousness:

Under common law, this was the wandering or going about from place to place by an idle person who has no lawful visible means of support and who exists on charity and does not work for a living:

Riot has been a crime since common law.