NEW YORK STATE PENAL LAW COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔giving unlawful gratuities - ✔✔misdemeanor
tipping past good behavior
✔✔receiving unlawful gratuities - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔rewarding official misconduct - ✔✔felony
✔✔receiving reward for official misconduct - ✔✔felony
only committed by public servant
✔✔assault - ✔✔misdemeanor--> unlawfulling causing PI
felony--> unlawfully causing SPI
✔✔ways to commit assault misdemeanor - ✔✔intentionally cause PI
recklessly cause PI
recklessly cause SPI
recklessly cause PI with DW/DI
criminally negligent PI with DW/DI
criminally negligent SPI with DW/DI
, ✔✔reckless endangerment-misd - ✔✔recklessly engage in conduct which creates a
substantial risk of SPI to another person
✔✔reckless endangerment-felony - ✔✔recklessly engaging in conduct which creates a
grave risk of death to another person
✔✔justification - ✔✔a person can lawfully use DPF when he/she reasonably believes
that it is necessary to prevent or terminate a crime
✔✔crimes that are justified - ✔✔DR BARKS
✔✔DR BARKS - ✔✔deadly physical force
robbery
burglary
arson
rape (forcible)
kidnapping
sexual abuse 1st degree
✔✔mental disease/defect - ✔✔at the time of the action because of the mental
disease/defect you were unaware of the action, or you knew you were doing it but you
didn't know you were wrong
✔✔what kind of defense is mental disease/defect - ✔✔affirmative
✔✔entrapment - ✔✔induced or encouraged to do so by public servant seeking to obtain
evidence against him for purpose of criminal prosecution
methods used to obtain such evidence were such as to create a substantial risk that the
offense would be committed by a person not otherwise disposed to commit it
(you were set up)
✔✔what kind of defense is entrapment - ✔✔affirmative
✔✔duress - ✔✔he was coerced to do so by the use or threatened imminent use of
unlawful physical force upon him or a third person, which force or threatened force a
person of reasonable firmness in his situation would have been unable to resist
✔✔riot-misd - ✔✔simultaneously with for or more other persons, he engages in
tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby intentionally or recklessly causes or creates
a grave risk of causing public alarm
need 5 people
✔✔riot-felony - ✔✔simultaneously with 10 or more persons (soccer team) engages in
tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby intentionally or recklessly causes or creates
EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔giving unlawful gratuities - ✔✔misdemeanor
tipping past good behavior
✔✔receiving unlawful gratuities - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔rewarding official misconduct - ✔✔felony
✔✔receiving reward for official misconduct - ✔✔felony
only committed by public servant
✔✔assault - ✔✔misdemeanor--> unlawfulling causing PI
felony--> unlawfully causing SPI
✔✔ways to commit assault misdemeanor - ✔✔intentionally cause PI
recklessly cause PI
recklessly cause SPI
recklessly cause PI with DW/DI
criminally negligent PI with DW/DI
criminally negligent SPI with DW/DI
, ✔✔reckless endangerment-misd - ✔✔recklessly engage in conduct which creates a
substantial risk of SPI to another person
✔✔reckless endangerment-felony - ✔✔recklessly engaging in conduct which creates a
grave risk of death to another person
✔✔justification - ✔✔a person can lawfully use DPF when he/she reasonably believes
that it is necessary to prevent or terminate a crime
✔✔crimes that are justified - ✔✔DR BARKS
✔✔DR BARKS - ✔✔deadly physical force
robbery
burglary
arson
rape (forcible)
kidnapping
sexual abuse 1st degree
✔✔mental disease/defect - ✔✔at the time of the action because of the mental
disease/defect you were unaware of the action, or you knew you were doing it but you
didn't know you were wrong
✔✔what kind of defense is mental disease/defect - ✔✔affirmative
✔✔entrapment - ✔✔induced or encouraged to do so by public servant seeking to obtain
evidence against him for purpose of criminal prosecution
methods used to obtain such evidence were such as to create a substantial risk that the
offense would be committed by a person not otherwise disposed to commit it
(you were set up)
✔✔what kind of defense is entrapment - ✔✔affirmative
✔✔duress - ✔✔he was coerced to do so by the use or threatened imminent use of
unlawful physical force upon him or a third person, which force or threatened force a
person of reasonable firmness in his situation would have been unable to resist
✔✔riot-misd - ✔✔simultaneously with for or more other persons, he engages in
tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby intentionally or recklessly causes or creates
a grave risk of causing public alarm
need 5 people
✔✔riot-felony - ✔✔simultaneously with 10 or more persons (soccer team) engages in
tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby intentionally or recklessly causes or creates
