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Criminal Law MidTerm
Collaborative Review Assignment #2
Question | Answer |
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An offense which is punishable by one year or more in a state prison is called a | felony |
Crimes and torts are similar in which of the following ways? | They both tell us what we can and can’t do. |
Private wrongs for which you can sue the party who wronged you and recover money are known as | Torts |
A trial without a jury is called: | bench trial |
The doctrine is concerned with giving individuals fair notice of what is criminal and preventing arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement of laws. | void-for-vagueness |
The void-for-overbreadth doctrine invalidates laws that have what effect on protected expression? | an unacceptable chilling effect |
Legal duties can arise from | statutes, contracts, and special relationships. |
Only voluntary acts qualify as criminal | actus reus |
Only voluntary acts qualify as criminal | trigger the criminal act |
The criminal law refers to a failure to act as | an omission |