Exam 5: Offenses Against Persons Excluding Sex Offenses

This type of homicide is the killing of a human being, either by misadventure or in self-defense.

Battery was any unlawful offer or attempt to injure another, with an apparent present ability to effectuate the attempt under circumstances creating a fear of imminent peril.

The difference between the two levels of murder is based on the actus reus.

Under common law, death was defined as the cessation of brain activity.

This type of homicide may be committed intentionally, but without any evil design, and under such circumstances of necessity or duty as to render the act legal and not criminal.

Following this doctrine from English law, one who, in the commission or attempted commission of any felony, caused another's death could be found guilty of:

Offenders may be held responsible for accidental deaths that occur during the course of a felony under which rule?

Most hate crime statutes include the following categories of protected groups EXCEPT _____.

Under common law, this is an unlawful touching, beating, wounding, or laying hold, however trifling, of another's person or clothes without his or her consent:

Which of the following crimes did not exist at common law?

Not all states criminalize which of these acts?

This is an unlawful restraining, unlawfully removing, or unlawfully confining a person against their will for ransom or other unlawful purpose:

Hate crime statutes generally have two components: prohibited acts and _____.

This is the intentional killing of one human being by another without justification or excuse, but committed under the influence of passion induced by great provocation:

The unlawful killing of a human being by another human being is _____.

This is the intent to commit murder, accompanied by premeditation and deliberation:

The willful killing of a human being with malice aforethought, either expressed or implied is _____.

If death did not take place within a year and a day of the time of receiving the wound, the law draws the conclusion that it was not the cause of death.

This is the killing that occurs in the course of committing an unlawful act, or death occurs during the negligent commission or omission of an otherwise lawful act:

Mayhem is maliciously depriving another of the use of his limbs so as to make him unable to defend himself against adversaries.