LSTD 2106 EXAM 2 VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
Forgery - Answers - You intentionally make or alter a writing or document that
wrongfully puts liability on another.
Example of Forgery - Answers - Writing a fake check that puts a wrongful liability on
someone else, or faking someone's signature.
Insider Trading - Answers - You must be an insider of a corporation and you
intentionally make a profit or avoid a loss in connection with the purchase or sale of a
security based on inside information.
Who could be an inside trader? - Answers - A corporate officer or an employee of a
corporation.
Infancy - Answers - you are not guilty of a crime if you are under 18 years of age. (a
minor)
Insanity - Answers - They are insane and cannot be guilty of a crime
M'Naghten Rule - Answers - You cannot be found to be not guilty because of insanity
unless you can prove that you do not know right from wrong.
Substantial capacity test - Answers - easier for a criminal defendant to prove. Says you
must be so crazy that you lack the ability to connect what you did to what you might
know to be right from wrong. You know right from wrong, but you could not connect your
actions to the crime.
Irresistible impulse test - Answers - you can pass the test and be demonstrated to be
insane if you can say you know it is wrong, but you can't help yourself. You cannot
resist.
immunity - Answers - Diplomatic. Countries want other countries to feel free so they can
work out problems. They want to encourage people to send diplomats to other
countries. Don't want people afraid to send diplomats to other countries.Diplomats can't
be tried for a crime in that country.
Example of immunity - Answers - Prosecutorial- prosecutors have broad latitude. Broad
powers to do what they wish. They can choose to make deals with people to let them off
the hook.
intoxication - Answers - if you are really intoxicated, you lack the guilty mind to commit a
crime. You must be very heavily drunk.
Forgery - Answers - You intentionally make or alter a writing or document that
wrongfully puts liability on another.
Example of Forgery - Answers - Writing a fake check that puts a wrongful liability on
someone else, or faking someone's signature.
Insider Trading - Answers - You must be an insider of a corporation and you
intentionally make a profit or avoid a loss in connection with the purchase or sale of a
security based on inside information.
Who could be an inside trader? - Answers - A corporate officer or an employee of a
corporation.
Infancy - Answers - you are not guilty of a crime if you are under 18 years of age. (a
minor)
Insanity - Answers - They are insane and cannot be guilty of a crime
M'Naghten Rule - Answers - You cannot be found to be not guilty because of insanity
unless you can prove that you do not know right from wrong.
Substantial capacity test - Answers - easier for a criminal defendant to prove. Says you
must be so crazy that you lack the ability to connect what you did to what you might
know to be right from wrong. You know right from wrong, but you could not connect your
actions to the crime.
Irresistible impulse test - Answers - you can pass the test and be demonstrated to be
insane if you can say you know it is wrong, but you can't help yourself. You cannot
resist.
immunity - Answers - Diplomatic. Countries want other countries to feel free so they can
work out problems. They want to encourage people to send diplomats to other
countries. Don't want people afraid to send diplomats to other countries.Diplomats can't
be tried for a crime in that country.
Example of immunity - Answers - Prosecutorial- prosecutors have broad latitude. Broad
powers to do what they wish. They can choose to make deals with people to let them off
the hook.
intoxication - Answers - if you are really intoxicated, you lack the guilty mind to commit a
crime. You must be very heavily drunk.
