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Criminal Law Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does complicicy mean? | This is when you can be criminaly liable for someone else's conduct. |
| What are the four parties to a crime? | Principals in the first degree, Principals in the second degree, Accessories before the fact, accessories after the fact. |
| Accomplices participate when | Before and during the crime |
| What are the two types of attempt statutes? | General attempt statute and specific attempt statute |
| What is legal impossibility? | The defense that what the actor attempted was not a crime. |
| What is voluntary abandonment? | The defendant clearly intended to commit the crime but changed their mind and abandonded the idea. |
| Define conspiracy | Agreeing with one or more people to commit a crime. |
| What are the two types of conspiracies? | Wheel conspiracy and chain conspiracy. |
| Define solicitation. | The crime of trying to get someone else to commit a crime. |
| How many states follow the born-alive rule? | 18 states |
| Define feticide | The crime. of killing a fetus |
| How many states have the feticide crime? | 24 states. |
| What are the three kinds of homocide? | Justifiable, excusable, and criminal. |