Exam 9: Criminal Law

Neither defamation nor obscenity receives First Amendment protection.

Moses saw the law as a moral code dictated by God that represented a contract.

By the time of the Emperor Justinian, a more clear division between civil wrongs and true crimes had evolved. Most crimes were punishable by:

The blur between civil and criminal law continued in Ancient Rome.

Talk About: -Inchoate crimes

Talk About: -Strict liability

Talk About: -Defenses of excuse

Consider the crime of robbery. The forcible taking of personal property from a person is:

Talk About: -Result

Under this covenant, God would not act capriciously, but rather would protect His followers so long as they held up their end of the bargain by adhering to a prescribed ethical tract. This is the belief of:

A law criminalizing flag burning was determined to be unconstitutionally overbroad in Texas v. Johnson (1989). The Court held that the law infringed upon people's right to express their dissatisfaction with the government through the symbolic speech embodied in the action of burning the flag. This is an example of:

Talk About: -Defenses

Procedural defenses are rooted in concern for due process and other forms of procedural justice.

Crimes in which people are physically victimized are considered to be the most serious of criminal offenses.

When a law enforcement agent persuades a citizen to commit a crime they would not have otherwise committed:":

In most U.S. jurisdictions, the insanity defenses excuses criminal liability if, as a result of a qualifying mental disease or defect, a person lacks the substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness/criminality of his or her actions.

Talk About: -Code of Ur-Namma

Under this man, Greeks began to distinguish between private wrongs, akin to our civil law, and offenses that harmed the community as a whole, akin to our criminal law:

Many acts that we think of today as crimes, such as homicide and rape, were not viewed as

Talk About: -Trial by combat