Proximate cause is that cause, from among all the causes-in-fact that may exist, which is the legally defined cause of the social harm.

In a process known as “nationalizing the Bill of Rights” the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to give citizens of the states the same constitutional criminal procedure rights that:

Michelle Banks was part of a group of fifteen people being removed by the police from an Air Force Recruiting Office during a Viet Nam war protest. Michelle yelled “F#*k the Air Force” while police were escorting her out. Why couldn’t she be successfully prosecuted for using “fighting words?”

Name the five elements of criminal responsibility.

Why is the right of the people to assemble publically not absolute?

The ex post facto principle prohibits:

Numerous judicial decisions hold that any person is criminally liable when he or she stands by and does nothing to help someone else in jeopardy, even if no special relationship exists.

Match the types of accomplice or other participant with the definitions.

Although modern criminal law is essentially statutory, the role of the courts is still required because: 

A panel of persons chosen through strict court procedures to review criminal investigations, to conduct criminal investigations and to indict defendants is called: