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week 4 flash cards
homicide
Question | Answer |
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objective test of cooling-off-time is defined as | requires that a reasonable person under the same circumstances would have had time to cool off |
capital cases is defined as | death penalty cases in death penalty states and “mandatory life sentence without parole” cases in non–death penalty states |
serious bodily injury is defined as | bodily injury that involves a substantial risk of death; protracted unconsciousness; extreme physical pain; protracted or obvious disfigurement; or protracted loss or substantial impairment of a function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty |
justifiable homicide | killing in self-defense |
malice aforethought | originally the mental state of intentional killing, with some amount of spite, hate, or bad will, planned in advance of the killing |
murder actus reus | the act of killing by poisoning, striking, starving, drowning, and a thousand other forms by which human nature can be overcome |
deadly weapon doctrine | one who intentionally uses a deadly weapon on another human being and thereby kills him is presumed to have formed the intent to kill |