Which of the following is a defense used when a person’s intended end constitutes a crime, but the actor does not complete the act that would have been a crime because of circumstances unknown to him or her or beyond his or her control?

In the audio lecture I discussed People v. Borak, an Illinois case where Dr. Borak was found not guilty of raping a patient whom he was examining.  1.  Why was he not convicted?2.  Would he be convicted today?  Why or why not. 

Name the four situations in which law enforcement officers are authorized to use non-deadly force.

Match the terms with the sources of law.

Which of these holds a person criminally liable even when the consequences of his or her action was not what he/she initially intended.  For example, Jim intended to kill his wife.  He shot at her, but she fell just before he fired the shot and his bullet hit and killed a neighbor.

The Constitution is a constraint on government.

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:

Name the five elements of criminal responsibility.

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?”