While the US and USSR never fought a hot war, they regularly fought each other indirectly through other countries, with the US supplying the Afghans with weapons against the Soviets and the Soviets and the Chinese supplying weapons to fight the US in in the 60s and 70s

This Spanish general helped lead an unsuccessful coup against the leftist Spanish government in 1936 after the government assassinated a right-wing leader, soon becoming the leader of all of the rebel Nationalist side in the civil war

Able saw Ben walking down the street wearing rival gang colors. Able pulled a handgun from his jacket and shot Ben in the head. Neighbors immediately called an ambulance, and Ben was taken to the emergency room. Dr. Johnson, a recent graduate from State University Medical School discovered that the bullet had lodged in Ben’s brain. Although Dr. Johnson had never performed brain surgery, he made a valiant but flawed effort to remove the bullet. Ben died while on the operating table. Will a court find Able guilty of murder? Yes because Able is the actual cause of Ben’s death. Yes because Dr. Johnson’s action is foreseeable. No because Dr. Johnson’s flawed surgery was a dependent intervening cause. No because Able is not the actual cause of Ben’s death. Select the best answer from the options below:

John loaned Jack $1000 to help him pay a bill for car repairs. After six months Jack had made no effort to pay back any of the money he owed John. It came to John’s attention that Jack had been betting heavily at the racetrack and had won $1,500 the week before. Enraged by the failure of Jack to make any effort to pay back the money Jack owed him, John drove to Jack’s house armed with a handgun and demanded to be repaid. At gunpoint Jack relented and paid John the $1,000 that he owed him. A California court is most likely to find that John is:

Dan and Tom decided to rob a gas station. In the process of doing so, Dan dragged the pregnant wife of the gas station owner into the office area of the station and held both the owner and his wife at gun point. After forcing the owner to give him all of the money in the safe, Dan shot in the direction of the pregnant wife before he and Tom ran off with the money. The owner then retrieved a gun from his desk drawer and shot at the two men who had just robbed him. One of the shots struck Tom in the head, killing him instantly. Assume that the law of this jurisdiction follows the modern approach with respect to criminal responsibility under these circumstances.  If Dan is prosecuted for the death of Tom, a court is most likely to find:

Willow told Max to accompany her into Frida’s unlocked barn and retrieve an expensive black saddle that she said she had loaned to Frida. Max accompanied Willow to Frida’s barn, opened the door, found a black saddle hanging high above the ground, and climbed a ladder to reach it. Max handed the saddle down to Willow, and the two left with it together. In fact, the saddle belonged to Frida, and when Frida discovered the saddle missing, she suspected that Willow was the thief. Frida used a screwdriver to break into Willow’s house to find the saddle. Upon discovering the saddle on Willow’s kitchen table, Frida took it back and called the police. The jurisdiction follows the common law, except that burglary covers structures in addition to dwellings and the nighttime element has been eliminated. Which, if any, of these individuals is guilty of burglary?

Rebecca, a registered nurse at a hospital, had a lover, Lucas, who subsequently left her for a younger woman. Lucas had a gambling habit and owed money to Bookie Bruce. One day while Lucas was walking down the street, Bookie Bruce deliberately ran over him with his car. Lucas was alive when he arrived at the hospital, but he would have died from the injuries inflicted by Bookie Bruce within an hour.Rebecca saw Lucas when he arrived in the emergency room. Rebecca intentionally gave him an injection of a deadly poison, and he died immediately as a result of the injection.Of what crimes are the registered nurse and Bookie Bruce guilty?

Dante agreed with Isaac to purchase heroin from Isaac in order to sell it on a city street corner. Unbeknownst to Dante, Isaac was an undercover police officer whose only purpose was to arrest distributors of drugs. Dante made a down payment for the heroin and agreed to pay the remainder after he sold it on the street. As soon as Isaac handed over the heroin, other officers moved in and arrested Dante. The jurisdiction follows the common law approach to conspiracy.Could Dante properly be convicted of conspiring to distribute drugs?

Julian did not like a family that belonged to a particular ethnicity and lived next door to him. Julian paid a friend, Leo, to set fire to the family’s residence. Leo forced open a side door leading into the kitchen. After searching the home to make sure no one was there, Leo rigged the gas oven to explode after a short delay. Leo quickly left the house. The oven exploded a few minutes later, and the house was completely destroyed by the resulting fire. Unbeknownst to Leo, the family had modified their attic, and a cousin was sleeping there at the time. The cousin was killed in the fire.Which of the following best supports Julian’s conviction for felony murder in connection with these events?

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