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Crime is the most serious of all crimes?
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Chapter 9

Criminal Law

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Crime is the most serious of all crimes? Criminal Homicide
Do most state criminal codes apply to? corporate criminal homicide
What is intentional, the sudden killing of another triggered by adequate provocation? Voluntary Manslaughter
What are the Elements of Involuntary Manslaughter? actus reys and mens rea
Reason for creating first and second degree murder? to separate murders that deserved the death penalty from those that didn't.
The death penalty is not discretionary in all states in which the penalty is authorized True or False False
Malum prohibitum crime? death has to foreseeable consequences of an unlawful act.*
What is the Article on Criminal Homicide? Article 210. and 210.1
What is criminal negligence manslaughter? death caused by a person who is aware of acts create a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death or bodily severe but actions anyway
What is the emotional reasonableness approach? A finding that "defendants emotional outrage or passion was reasonable"
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