Exam 4: Elements of Crimes and Parties to Crimes

Actual possession exists when a person has something under his or her direct physical control; ______ possession is a more difficult thing to prove.

In Powell v.Texas (1968), Powell was a chronic alcoholic who was convicted of _______.

At common law, an accessory ____________ was one who procured or counseled another to commit a felony but who was not actually or constructively present at the commission of the offense.

The __________ uses the terms purposely, knowingly, recklessly, and negligently to describe four culpable mental states allowing for criminal responsibility.

Normally, to convict a person of a crime, the prosecution must prove that an actus reus occurred with a concurrent ________________.

_____________ is the intent to engage in a prohibited act but not necessarily to cause the harmful results that occur from that act.

Many mala prohibita crimes are ________ offenses.

To be found guilty of a crime a person must commit a voluntary act, and in most instances, that act must be committed with criminal intent.

The traditional elements of a crime are a person's wrongful act (actus reus) and _________.

In _________, the Supreme Court ruled that the crime for which the defendant was prosecuted was a variant of the common-law offense of larceny and that failure to include the intent requirement in the statute did not eliminate the element of intent.

At common law, a person whose intentional conduct involved only indirect participation in a crime was classified as an _________.

What is the difference between general and specific intent? Illustrate with language indicating a specific-intent statute.

"[U]nder the doctrine of ______, it is immaterial whether the defendant intended injury to the person actually harmed; if he in fact acted with the required or elemental intent toward someone, that intent suffices as the intent element of the crime charged as a matter of substantive law."

In 2011 Congress adopted the Model Penal Code

Strict liability crimes are exceptions to the common-law concept of requiring proof of a defendant's _______.

Having consensual sexual relations with a minor is generally considered a _______ offense.

Which of the following is not an actus reus?

The trial judge will most likely hold that:

The Model Penal Code was produced by __________.

The term mala prohibita refers to crimes involving universal moral wrongs.