Larry Lightfingers steals a package of filet mignon priced at $19.99 from the meat counter in a supermarket. As he leaves the store, he is approached by a security guard. Lightfingers kicks and injures the security guard and takes the security gaurd’s flashlight in his attempt to leave with the meat he has stolen. What crime(s) have Lightfingers committed?

Depending on the circumstances, parents who inflict injury on a child or who impose excessive corporal punishment may most likely be found guilty of ___.

Under the ___ Rule, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.

Offenses motivated by bias against a person’s race, religion, nationality, gender, disability or sexual orientation are termed ___.

In drug possession cases, to obtain a conviction the prosecution must prove that the defendant had either actual or ___ possession of the contraband.

Building codes are concerned with the construction of buildings while the term ___ refers to regulation of the use of land.

Billy is in an interrogation room at a police station. He was brought there after being arrested on suspicion of DUI. He was not read his Miranda rights on the side of the road when he was taken into custody and was not read his Miranda rights upon arriving at the station either. The detective who enters the interrogation room is unaware of this information and begins questioning Billy about his whereabouts that evening. Billy mentions that he was at a bar called “The Floating Walrus.” This piques the detectives interest, because a woman last seen at that bar has been reported missing. When the detective mentions her name, Billy breaks down crying and asks for forgiveness. Billy then says her body is in a wooded area about 250 feet behind the bar. The detective leaves the station, heads to that area, and finds the woman’s body; she is dead from a gunshot wound. A gun registered to Billy is lying next to her. Does Billy have a valid basis to suppress his confession?

Involuntary ___ rarely occurs, but when it does, it can negate criminal intent.

The defendant and her husband have two sons, ages five and three. Without notifying her husband, she left the family home with both children while no court proceedings were pending concerning either their marriage or custody of their children. Two weeks later, and without the wife’s knowledge, the husband obtained a court order granting him custody of the two children. An arrest warrant was eventually issued for the wife. She was arrested in another state and brought back to her home state, where she now faces prosecution under a statute that provides, “Whoever, being a relative of a child … without lawful authority, holds or intends to hold such a child permanently or for a protracted period, or takes or entices a child from his lawful custodian … shall be guilty of a felony.” The wife’s attorney stipulates that the facts are correct as stated but contends the wife cannot be convicted of parental kidnapping under the quoted statute. What result do you think should occur?

While taking his nightly walk, Charley Goodneighbor saw Joe Macho commit a battery on Charlene Lovely, a fourteen-year-old girl. Goodneighbor came to Lovely’s defense and struck Macho so hard it fractured his skull. The police arrested both Macho and Goodneighbor. Goodneighbor explained to the police that he came to Lovely’s aid to prevent her from being injured by Macho. What factors will the prosecutor probably consider in determining whether to file charges against Goodneighbor?