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17 Cards in this Set
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Substantive criminal law is primarily concerned with |
Defining crimes and their punishment |
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Which type of law deals with the state governments..... or other branches of government |
Public Law |
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Wichita of the early forms of judicial proceedings involved a determination of guilt... a hot iron |
A trial by ordeal |
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Civil lw includes all the following except: |
Criminal |
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Which early legal charter was formulated because previously unwritten legal codes gave arbitrary and unlimited power to the wealthy? |
Roman 12 tablets |
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Which of the following is true concerning criminal law and tort law? |
The right of enforcement belongs to the state (in criminal law) |
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Laws are created and retroactively enforced are known as: |
Ex Post Facto Laws |
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Which of the following is not one of the categories that crimes are classified into? |
Torts |
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The term actus reuse refers to: |
Guilty act |
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Criminal negligence is a form of: |
Mens Rea |
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When an offender is charged with a crime in which the government failed to make enactment of the crime public, this is the defense of: |
Ignorance or mistake |
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If a pregnant woman in labor style a car because she feared she was immediately going to give birth and had no other means of transportation, she may use defense of : |
Necessity |
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Florida's stand your ground law authorizes ____ |
Deadly force |
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Which insanity defense was first formulated in England and is now used in the major of states |
The M'naghten rule |
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Under common law, there was a conclusive presumption of incapacity for a child under the age of: |
7 |
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Which of the following is the determining factor in a successful defense of entrapment |
The predisposition of the defendant |
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When may criminal statute no longer be enforceable |
When an appellate judge rules that it's an unfair or vague exercise of state control over an individual |
