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Vocabulary Review
Question | Answer |
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What is feticide | the crime of killing a fetus |
What is murder? | killing a person with "malice aforethought" |
What is manslaughter? | killing a person without malice aforethought |
What is depraved heart murder? | extremely reckless killing |
What is murder mens rea? | can include purposeful, knowing, or reckless as the mental element in killing |
What is felony murder rule derives? | unintentional deaths that occur during the commission of some felonies are murders |
What is euthanasia? | helping another person to die |
What is carnal knowledge? | vaginal sexual intercourse |
what are rape shield laws? | statues that prohibit introducing evidence of victims' past sexual conduct |
What is the martial rape exception? | provided that husbands could not legally rape their wives |
What is subjective fear? | means that the victim honestly feared imminent and serious bodily harm |
What is objective fear? | means that the fear was reasonable under the circumstances |
what is assault? | an attempt to commit battery or intentionally putting another in fear |
what is battery? | unwanted and unjustified offensive touching |
what is right of locomotion? | the right to come and go without restraint |