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Ch. 1—Purposes of Criminal Law

Ch. 1—Purposes of Criminal Law

Regina v. Dudley & Stephens, 14 Q.B.D. 273 [1884]

U.S. v. Bergman, 416 F.Supp. 496 (S.D.N.Y. 1976)

Ch. 2—Actus Reus

Omission Upon Legal Duty

Commonwealth v. Pestinikas, 617 A.2d 1339 (1992)

Jones v. United States, 308 F.2d 307 (D.C. Cir. 1962)

Omission Upon Legal Duty

State v. Williquette, 385 N.W.2d 145 (1986)

Voluntary Act

Involuntary Act by External Force

Involuntary Act by Internal Force

Possession as Actus Reus

Status or Condition as Actus Reus

Voluntary Act

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Ch. 2—Actus Reus

Ch. 3—Mens Rea

Intoxicated or Drugged Condition

Intoxicated or Drugged Condition

People v. Atkins, 18 P.3d 660 (Cal. 2001)

Mens Rea Generally

Mens Rea Generally

Regina v. Faulkner, 13 Cox Crim. Cas. 550 (1877)

State v. Ducker, 1999 WL 160981 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1999)

Mistake of Fact

Hopson v. Texas, 2009 WL 1124389 (Tex. App.-Hous. (14 Dist.) 2009)

Iowa v. Freeman, 450 N.W.2d 826 (Iowa 1990)

Mistake of Fact

Mistake of Law

Mistake of Law

Strict Liability Crimes

Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019)

Strict Liability Crimes

Ch. 3—Mens Rea

Hawaii v. DeCastro, 913 P.2d 558 (Ha. Ct. App. 1996)

Kipp v. Delaware, 704 A.2d 839 (Del. 1998)

North Carolina v. Breathette, 690 S.E.2d 1 (N.C. 2010)

U.S. v. Scarmazzo, 554 F. Supp. 2d 1102 (E.D.Cal. 2008)

Ch. 4—Causation

Actual Cause

Ch. 4—Causation

People v. Acosta, 284 Cal. Rptr. 117 (Cal. Ct. App. 1991)

Proximate Cause

State v. McGee

Stephenson v. State, 179 N.E. 633 (Ind. 1932)

Ch. 5—Accomplice Liability

Accessories

Accessories

After the Fact

Before the Fact

In the First Degree

In the Second Degree

Principals

In the First Degree

In the Second Degree

Principals

Ch. 5—Accomplice Liability

New Hampshire v. Merritt, 738 A.2d 343 (N.H. 1999)

Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh, 143 S.Ct. 1206 (2023)

Ch. 6—Attempt

Abandonment

Ch. 6—Attempt

Commonwealth v. Peaslee, 59 N.E. 55 (Mass. 1901)

Impossibility

People v. Dlugash, 363 N.E.2d 1155 (N.Y. App. 1977)

People v. Gibson, 210 P.2d 747 (Cal. App. 1949)

People v. Rizzo, 158 N.E. 888 (N.Y. 1927)

State v. Curtis, 603 A.2d 356 (Vt. 1992)

State v. Guffey, 262 S.W.2d 152 (Mo. App. 1953)

State v. Maestas, 652 P.2d 903 (Utah 1982)

State v. Workman, 584 P.2d 382 (Wash. en banc 1978)

U.S. v. Jackson, 560 F.2d 112 (2d Cir. 1977)

Ch. 7—Conspiracy

Actus Reus

Actus Reus

State v. Papillon, 236 A.3d 839 (N.H. 2020)

State v. Rosado, 2009 WL 3086436 (Conn. 2009)

Legal Impossibility

Legal Impossibility

State v. Huff, 769 N.W.2d 154 (2009)

State v. Mendoza, 889 A.2d 153 (2005)

Wharton's Rule

Mens Rea

Colorado v. Palmer, 964 P.2d 524 (Colo. 1998)

Mens Rea

U.S. v. Blankenship, 970 F.2d 283 (1992)

Overt Act

Overt Act

State v. Garcia, 376 P.3d 94 (Kan. Ct. App. 2016)

Renunciation

Merger

Pinkerton Rule

Renunciation

Withdrawal

Ch. 7—Conspiracy

Justifications for Conspiracy

Ch. 8—Homicide

General Rule

General Rule

State v. Burley

Manslaughter

Manslaughter

Noakes v. Virginia

People v. McCoy

State v. Powell

Murder

Felony Murder

Felony Murder

First Degree Murder

First Degree Murder

Second Degree Murder

Second Degree Murder

Massachusetts v. Hinds, 927 N.E.2d 1009 (Mass. 2010)

Murder

People v. Portillo

State v. Blair, 228 P.3d 564 (2010)

State v. Davis, 905 S.W.2d 921 (1995)

State v. Hope, 137 N.E.3d 549 (Ohio 2019)

State v. Ramirez, 945 P.2d 376 (Ariz. 1997)

Ch. 8—Homicide

Ch. 12—Defenses

Excuses

Duress

Excuses

In re Devon T., 584 A.2d 1287 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 1991)

Infancy

Insanity

M'Naughten's Case, 8 Eng. Rep. 718 (H.L. 1843)

U.S. v. Contento-Pachon, 723 F.2d 691 (9th Cir. 1984)

Justifications

Bechtel v. State, 840 P.2d 1 (Okla. Crim. App. 1992)

Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921)

Defense of Dwelling

Defense of Others

Justifications

Necessity & Choice of Evils

Self-Defense

State v. Anderson, 972 P.2d 32 (Okla. Crim. App. 1998)

State v. Crawford, 521 A.2d 1193 (Md. 1987)

State v. Marr, 765 A.2d 645 (2001)

Ch. 12—Defenses

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