NOVA MIDDLE BAR EXAM - FINAL REVIEW
2024-2025 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED
A+ WITH RATIONALE ANSWERS
Accessory After the Fact
Knowingly helping a person who has just committed a felony
escape or avoid arrest or trial.
Accessory Before the Fact
A party who ordered a crime to be committed but did not do it.
Accomplice
A party who agrees to a crime as the main criminal or in
accessory.
Actus Reus
,Latin phrase meaning "guilty act."
Acquittal
When a person accused of a crime is legally freed by a court due
to a lack of evidence.
Aggravated Assault & Aggravated Battery
Assault or battery with a deadly weapon. Example: pointing a
gun at a person to scare him is aggravated assault or possessing
a gun while committing a battery is aggravated battery.
Battering a pregnant woman is also aggravated battery.
Alibi
A defense a defendant uses that offers evidence to show that he
was in another place at the time the crime was committed.
Arrest Warrant
A written order signed by a judge directing a police officer to
arrest the person named in it who is accused of an offense.
Felony
A crime punishable by death or confinement in prison.
Grand Jury
A special type of jury that investigates whether criminal charges
should be brought. Can have 16-23 people.
Guilty
Responsible for committing a criminal offense.
, Incarceration
imprisonment in a jail, prison, or other correctional facility as
punishment for a crime
Jail
Holds inmates waiting for trial and those sentenced to one year
or less.
Mens Rea
Latin phrase meaning "guilty mind." It means intentionally,
knowingly, purposefully or maliciously committing a crime.
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
The level of proof required to convict a person of a crime; if a
jury member has any reasonable doubt that a defendant
committed a crime, the verdict must be "not guilty." Reasonable
means fair and sensible.
Information
A written formal charge against a criminal defendant which
begins a criminal proceeding.
Misdemeanor
an offense less serious than a felony and which may be punished
by a fine or sentence to a local jail for less than one year
Plea Bargain
2024-2025 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED
A+ WITH RATIONALE ANSWERS
Accessory After the Fact
Knowingly helping a person who has just committed a felony
escape or avoid arrest or trial.
Accessory Before the Fact
A party who ordered a crime to be committed but did not do it.
Accomplice
A party who agrees to a crime as the main criminal or in
accessory.
Actus Reus
,Latin phrase meaning "guilty act."
Acquittal
When a person accused of a crime is legally freed by a court due
to a lack of evidence.
Aggravated Assault & Aggravated Battery
Assault or battery with a deadly weapon. Example: pointing a
gun at a person to scare him is aggravated assault or possessing
a gun while committing a battery is aggravated battery.
Battering a pregnant woman is also aggravated battery.
Alibi
A defense a defendant uses that offers evidence to show that he
was in another place at the time the crime was committed.
Arrest Warrant
A written order signed by a judge directing a police officer to
arrest the person named in it who is accused of an offense.
Felony
A crime punishable by death or confinement in prison.
Grand Jury
A special type of jury that investigates whether criminal charges
should be brought. Can have 16-23 people.
Guilty
Responsible for committing a criminal offense.
, Incarceration
imprisonment in a jail, prison, or other correctional facility as
punishment for a crime
Jail
Holds inmates waiting for trial and those sentenced to one year
or less.
Mens Rea
Latin phrase meaning "guilty mind." It means intentionally,
knowingly, purposefully or maliciously committing a crime.
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
The level of proof required to convict a person of a crime; if a
jury member has any reasonable doubt that a defendant
committed a crime, the verdict must be "not guilty." Reasonable
means fair and sensible.
Information
A written formal charge against a criminal defendant which
begins a criminal proceeding.
Misdemeanor
an offense less serious than a felony and which may be punished
by a fine or sentence to a local jail for less than one year
Plea Bargain
