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| Did Ted Bundy successfully use the insanity defense? | Yes |
| Did Charles Manson successfully use the insanity defense? | Yes |
| Did Jeffery Dahmer successfully use the insanity defense? | Yes |
| What is entrapment in legal terms? | Entrapment is the defense that the individual was induced by the police or government to commit the criminal act. |
| What must be proven for an entrapment defense to be valid? | It must be proven that the individual would not have committed the act without the inducement from the police or government. |
| complicity | When you can be liable for someone else's actions. |
| Vicarious Liability | Establishes which types of relationships can create criminal liability |
| Accomplice | a person who takes part in a crime, before and during. |
| Accessory | A person who takes part after a crime was committed. |
| Legal Impossibility | the defense that what the actor attempted was not a crime |
| Factual Impossibility | the defense that some extraneous factor made it impossible to complete a crime |
| Voluntary Abandonment | Defendant clearly intended to commit the crime, but changed his/her mind and abandoned the idea. |
| conspiracy | Agreeing with one or more people to commit a crime |
| Solicitation | the crime of trying to get someone else to commit a crime |
| Criminal Attempt | trying unsuccessfully to commit a crime |
| Criminal Attempt Elements | 1. Intent to commit a specific crime 2. an act to carry the crime out |
| 3 Types of Homicide: | Justifiable Excusable Criminal |
| Homicide actus reus | Killing another human being or causing death to another |