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LD 5
Intro to criminal law
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Criminal Justice
Professional
01/16/2011

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Term
Constitutional Law
Definition
The rules and provesions which are found in federal and state constitutions, specifically the Bill of Rights
Term
Statutory law
Definition
(Comes from a state assembly) The laws which are enacted by a legislative body and recorded in the various state, county, or municipal codes
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Case Law
Definition
(Comes from a case) Laws which are based on previous appellate court desicions that have become binding on lower court decisions
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Power of Judical Review
Definition
Protects the rights on the individual from unconstitutional legislation
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Ex Post Facto
Definition
(Law must have been enacted before the alleged criminal act took place) Laws written after the fact to punish an action that has already taken place and was not illegal at the time of commision
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Letter of the Law
Definition
The law is strictly applied in accordance with the literal meaning of the statue, leaving no room for interpretation
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Spirit of the law
Definition
Law is applied in accordance with the intent of the legislature, the promotion of fairness and justice, and not solely in literal compliance with the words of the statue
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Criminal Law
Definition
Deals with violtions of the criminal statues.
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Civil Law
Definition
Deals with noncriminal violations of the law or private wrongs commited by one person against another
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Serious Crimes
Definition
Murder, manslaughter, assult, rape, burglary, theft, perjury, and threats to the government such a s treason
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Prosecution
Definition
Consequence for violating crimianl law
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Tort
Definition
A civil wrong
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Crime
Definition
( Penal code section 15 defines a crime as a violation of a criminal statue and provides the punishments for a crime) An act commited or ommitted in violaion of a law forbidding or commanding it
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Elemants of a Crime
Definition
basic facts that must be proved by the prosecution to sustain a conviction ( If any of the elements is missing the crime is incomplete)
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Attempt to commit a crime
Definition
Consits of two elements
1) an intent to commit that crime
2) a direct, but ineffectual, act done towards its commission.
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General Intent
Definition
Commiting a crime in which you knew was a crime (You do not have to prove intent)
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Specific Intent
Definition
You have to prove the intent and with out the intent being proven there is no crime
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Criminal Intent
Definition
Must exist to distinguish the crime from an accident or mistake of fact
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Traansferred Intent
Definition
When an unlawful act affects a person other then, or in addition to the person it was intended to affect
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Criminal Negligence
Definition
Negligent act that is aggrevated or recklass and consitutes indifferece to the consequnce
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Crime Classifications
Definition
Felony- A Fine, imprisonment in a state prison or death
Misdemeanor- A Fine, imprisonment in a county jail
Intent- A fine
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Parties of a crime
Definition
1)Principal
2)Accessory
3)Accomplice
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Principal
Definition
Directly commits a crime, or aids, abets, advises or encourages another person in the commision of amy crime
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Accessory
Definition
With knowledge that felony was commited and harbors, aids or concels the principal with the intent or to avoid arrest or prosecution
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Accomplice
Definition
Is a principal to the crime, and testifies for the prosecution
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Person Incapable of commiting crimes
Definition
*kids under 14
*Mentally incapacitated
*People who commited the act or ommision under Ignorance or mistake, Unconscious act, misfortune or accident, and threat or menace
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