2026 CRIMINAL LAW 2026 EXAM SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔causation - ✔✔the defendant's conduct must be linked to the resulting harm
✔✔cause and fact - ✔✔the harm caused would not have occurred if the defendant had
not acted the way they did
✔✔proximate cause - ✔✔the defendant should have been able to foresee the
consequences of their actions
✔✔concurrence - ✔✔mens rea and actus reus must take place simultaneously,
meaning the criminal must have had intent while committing the guilty act
✔✔motive - ✔✔the reason why an illegal act was preformed
✔✔strict liability offenses - ✔✔are crimes regardless of a guilty state of mind, meaning
they only need an actus reus, not a mens rea
✔✔battery - ✔✔any unlawful physical contact inflicted by one person upon another
without consent; actual injury is not necessary, the only requirement is the intention to
do bodily harm
, ✔✔assault - ✔✔any attempt or threat to carry out a physical attack upon another person
✔✔stalking - ✔✔a person repeatedly follows or harasses another person and makes
threats, causing the victim to fear death or bodily injury
✔✔rape - ✔✔the act of unlawful sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman
by force or without her consent
✔✔statutory rape - ✔✔sexual intercourse by a man with a woman who has not yet
reached the legal age of consent
✔✔sexual offense - ✔✔same as statutory rape except victim is a male
✔✔most serious type of criminal homicide - ✔✔murder which is done with malice
✔✔malice - ✔✔the intent to kill or seriously harm or acting in an extremely reckless
manner
✔✔first-degree murder - ✔✔killing that is premeditated and done with malice
✔✔second-degree murder - ✔✔killing that is done with malice, but without
premeditation or deliberation
✔✔felony murder - ✔✔any killing that takes place during the commission of certain
felonies, such as arson, rape, robbery, or burglary
✔✔voluntary manslaughter - ✔✔a killing that would otherwise be murder, but that
occurs after the victim has done something to the killer that would cause a reasonable
person to lose self-control or act rashly
✔✔involuntary manslaughter - ✔✔an unintentional killing resulting from conduct so
reckless that it causes extreme danger of death or bodily injury
✔✔negligent homicide - ✔✔the causing of death through criminal negligence or the
failing to exercise a reasonable or ordinary amount of care in a situation that causes
extreme harm to someone
✔✔noncriminal homicide - ✔✔killing that is justifiable or excusable and for which the
killer is deemed faultless
✔✔ten steps in a trial - ✔✔1. crime occurs
2. investigation
3. arrest
4. booking
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔causation - ✔✔the defendant's conduct must be linked to the resulting harm
✔✔cause and fact - ✔✔the harm caused would not have occurred if the defendant had
not acted the way they did
✔✔proximate cause - ✔✔the defendant should have been able to foresee the
consequences of their actions
✔✔concurrence - ✔✔mens rea and actus reus must take place simultaneously,
meaning the criminal must have had intent while committing the guilty act
✔✔motive - ✔✔the reason why an illegal act was preformed
✔✔strict liability offenses - ✔✔are crimes regardless of a guilty state of mind, meaning
they only need an actus reus, not a mens rea
✔✔battery - ✔✔any unlawful physical contact inflicted by one person upon another
without consent; actual injury is not necessary, the only requirement is the intention to
do bodily harm
, ✔✔assault - ✔✔any attempt or threat to carry out a physical attack upon another person
✔✔stalking - ✔✔a person repeatedly follows or harasses another person and makes
threats, causing the victim to fear death or bodily injury
✔✔rape - ✔✔the act of unlawful sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman
by force or without her consent
✔✔statutory rape - ✔✔sexual intercourse by a man with a woman who has not yet
reached the legal age of consent
✔✔sexual offense - ✔✔same as statutory rape except victim is a male
✔✔most serious type of criminal homicide - ✔✔murder which is done with malice
✔✔malice - ✔✔the intent to kill or seriously harm or acting in an extremely reckless
manner
✔✔first-degree murder - ✔✔killing that is premeditated and done with malice
✔✔second-degree murder - ✔✔killing that is done with malice, but without
premeditation or deliberation
✔✔felony murder - ✔✔any killing that takes place during the commission of certain
felonies, such as arson, rape, robbery, or burglary
✔✔voluntary manslaughter - ✔✔a killing that would otherwise be murder, but that
occurs after the victim has done something to the killer that would cause a reasonable
person to lose self-control or act rashly
✔✔involuntary manslaughter - ✔✔an unintentional killing resulting from conduct so
reckless that it causes extreme danger of death or bodily injury
✔✔negligent homicide - ✔✔the causing of death through criminal negligence or the
failing to exercise a reasonable or ordinary amount of care in a situation that causes
extreme harm to someone
✔✔noncriminal homicide - ✔✔killing that is justifiable or excusable and for which the
killer is deemed faultless
✔✔ten steps in a trial - ✔✔1. crime occurs
2. investigation
3. arrest
4. booking
