Criminal Law Post-Test

Criminal enters a bank with a gun and demands money. The bank teller delays long enough for the police to arrive and arrest criminal. He committed a crime because: - Answer-attempt Sedition statutes, which criminalize advocating the overthrow of the government, may be unconstitutional because they violate: - Answer-1st amendment: freedom of speech Which of the following is NOT one of the four frames that are used to construct a criminal case: - Answer-Constitutional Legal Procedural Evidentiary A common law state is a state that: - Answer-crimes not defined in the statutes but is defined in the common law. Meaning the law is not necessarily written down. Self defense requires that the person who acts in self defense respond: - Answer-equal or lesser amount of force In order for someone to be liable for violating a criminal law, there must be proof of both: - Answer-Act and Intent ____________ law takes precedence over every other type of law. - Answer-Federal Burglary requires the unlawful entering of a building with the intent to commit: - Answer-any crime An intentional act requires the person act: - Answer-Purposely When people agree to commit a crime and begin preparing to commit the crime, they become criminally responsible because: - Answer-conspiracy Defendant A agrees to give Defendant B a ride to the bank so that Defendant B can rob it. While inside the bank, Defendant B gets the money and, as he is leaving, Defendant B pushes a bystander into a wall causing a heart attack. The bystander survives, however. The most serious offense Defendant A has committed is: - Answer-Liability principle 2nd Which of the following is an element that identifies the level of intent: - Answer-Purposely - Aware of outcome, did it intentionally Knowingly - What your doing is illegal Recklessly - Disregard substantial risk and such disregard is a gross deviation from standard of care in that circumstance Negligently - failing to be aware