Exam 7: Business Crimes

Warrants are required for searches of businesses in highly regulated industries.

Failure to act cannot be a crime.

An illegal act committed by a business using nonviolent means to obtain a business advantage is a white-collar crime .

To constitute bribery, the bribe must consist of money.

Bond, the owner of Camp Ground, trusts Dave to manage the resort's daily cash flow. One night, without Bond's knowledge or consent, Dave takes and keeps $1,000 from the receipts. This is most likely

The Fourth Amendment protects against searches that violate a person's reasonable expectation of privacy .

Quint, an employee of Reservations Inc. pays Sienna, an employee of Reservations' competitor Travel Inc., for a secret Travel pricing schedule . This is most likely

Shoplifting is robbery, not larceny .

Cloud Computing Services, Inc., suffers a security breach in its computer network. Before the company discovers the breach, the perpetrator obtains a large amount of confidential data, including corporate financial records, marketing plans, and other sensitive information. Has a crime been committed? If so, what are its elements?

Riley commits an act via e-mail against State Bank, a business in Texas, where the act is a cyber crime. Riley resides in Utah where the act is not a crime. Prosecution of Riley in Texas involves questions of

A felony is a crime that is punishable by imprisonment for more than a year up to death.

Shoplifting is

The purpose of the exclusionary rule is to deter criminals from misconduct.

Posing as eBank, Frank e-mails Grace, asking her to update her credit-card information through a link in the e-mail. She clicks on the link and types in the data, which Frank promptly sells to Hector. This is

Embezzlement includes the making or altering of any writing in a way that changes the legal rights and liabilities of another.

A mistake of fact can often excuse criminal responsibility.

Sawyer offers Tina, a city inspector, money to overlook building code violations in his tenement. Tina accepts the money and overlooks the violations.  Sawyer is charged with the crime of bribery. The crime occurred when

It is a crime to use the Internet with the intent to obtain personal data with fake advertising.

Under the exclusionary rule, evidence derived from illegally obtained evidence may be included in any criminal prosecution.

In a criminal case, the defendant must convince the court that, based on the evidence, it is more likely than not that the defendant's alibi is true.