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Chapter 9 Flashcards

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Born-alive rule   The rule that to be a person, and therefore a homicide victim, a baby had to be “born alive” and capable of breathing and maintaining a heartbeat on its own.  
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"Implied" malice aforethought   The mental element of intentional killings without pre- meditation or reasonable provocation; unintentional killings during the commission of felonies; depraved heart killings; and intent to inflict grievous bodily harm killings  
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Depraved heart murder   Extremely reckless killings  
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"Express" malice aforethought   The mental element of killings that fit the original meaning of “murder”—intentional killings planned in advance  
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Bifurcation procedure   The requirement that the death penalty decision be made in two phases: a trial to determine guilt and a second separate proceeding, after a finding of guilt, to consider the aggravating factors for, and mitigating factors against, capital punishment  
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Felony murder rule   Derives unintentional deaths that occur during the commission of some felonies are murders  
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Voluntary manslaughter   Suddenly and intentionally killing another person in the heat of anger following adequate provocation; elements include murder actus reus, mens rea, causation, and death  
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Adequate provocation   The requirement that the provocation for killing in anger has to be something the law recognizes, the defendant himself had to be provoked, and that a reasonable person would have been provoked  
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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  
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Manslaughter   An ancient common law crime created by judges, not by legislators, consisting of two crimes: voluntarily or involuntarily killing another person  
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