Exam 2: Principles of Criminal Liability

The criminal state of mind.

Which of the following is NOT a type of duty that might create liability if there is an omission or failure to act?

Most state statutes follow the MPC's four part definition of mens rea.

Acts such as epileptic seizures or spasms, reflexive actions, or actions taken while sleepwalking are considered what kind of acts?

Proximate causation is cut off when acts are.

The major difference between being charged under a complicity statute or being charged under a facilitation statute is the ______.

Which of the following behaviors could fulfill the "act" requirement for a criminal law?

In most jurisdictions, the penalty for facilitation is one level, or class, higher than the substantive offense for which the aid was offered.

What is the element in criminal law requiring that the physical act and the state of mind occur at the same time?

This is an evil act; a deed, an act, an offense, or an omission of conduct.

These crimes do not require any level of mens rea or actus reus.

The duty to file tax returns and they duty to register in sex-offender registries are an example of what type of duty.

A person who receives, comforts, or assists another, knowing that the other has committed a felony, in order to hinder the perpetrator's arrest, prosecution, or conviction.

These statutes impose liability for providing aid to someone, knowing that he or she is about to commit an offense, but not necessarily having the same intent to commit a crime.

"Good Samaritan" laws create a duty to render assistance when one citizen sees another in distress.

Which type of intent refers to an intention to commit some act to accomplish a result that is known to be illegal?

Common law provides that a person is guilty of an offense if it is committed by his or her own conduct or by the conduct of an instrument or animal under his control and by his direction

One who actually commits the act that causes a crime to occur is a ______.

This doctrine holds that if the defendant shoots or strikes at A, intending to wound or kill him, and unforeseeably hits B instead, he is guilty of the originally intended crime.

One who aids or abets a principal in the first degree as he or she commits the criminal act, or incites the commission of the crime, and who is actually or constructively present at the time of the commission is a principle after the fact.