Main Content
Content from the following sources has been used in the creation of this casebook:
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Criminal Law Fall 2021
(First published Aug 2021)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1: I. History and Structure of U.S. Criminal Law
- 2: II. Public Values
- 3: III. Policing & Punishment
- 4.1.1: Voluntary Acts (Acts of Comission)
- 4.1.2.1: Jones v. United States (1962)
- 4.1.3: Police Duty to Intervene
- 4.2.1: Basic Conceptions
- 4.2.2.3: Model Penal Code ยง2.04
- 4.2.3: Negligence, Statutory Silence
- 4.3: Causation & Attendant Circumstances
- 4.4: Statutory & Constitutional Standards
- 5.1.1: First Degree Murder
- 5.1.2: Police Killings
- 5.1.3: Provocation
- 5.2.1.2: United States v. Fleming
- 5.2.2.2: People v. Hall
- 5.2.3.1: Regina v. Serne
- 5.3: Officer Cariol Horne (Ret.), Buffalo, NY Police Force
- 6.1: Moratorium & Revival: Procedural Requirements
- 6.2: 14th Amendment Challenges
- 6.3: 8th Amendment Limitations
- 6.4: Current Practices
- 7.1.1: The Force Requirement
- 7.1.2: The Consent Requirement + Questions of Mistake & Fraud
- 7.1.3: Statutory Rape
- 8.1.1: Reasonableness
- 8.1.2: Battered Women Syndrome
- 8.1.3: Stand Your Ground vs. Duty To Retreat
- 8.1.4: Defense of Property, Castle Doctrine
- 8.2.3: Commonwealth v. Leno
- 8.2.4: People v. Bordowitz
- 8.3: Duress
- 8.4: Civil Disobedience, Protest
- 8.5.2: Blake v. United States
- 8.5.4: United States v. Lyons
- 8.5.5: Kahler v. Kansas
- 9.1.1: Smallwood v. State
- 9.1.4: Jones v. Commonwealth
- 9.1.5: Jones v. Commonwealth of VA (Ct. App. Va. 2019) [Optional, through PDF p. 21, or H20 para. 39]
- 9.2: Complicity
- 9.3.1: Actus Reus & Mens Rea
- 9.3.2: Prosecutorial Advantages
- 9.3.3: Conspiracy Scope, RICO
- 9.4: Guest Visit: Randall Eliasson, Former chief of Public Corruption Unit (DC)
- 10.1: Legislation Power: Legality Over Morality
- 10.2.1: Robinson v. California
- 10.3: Policing Power: Against Arbitrary Enforcement, Vagueness
- 10.4: Judicial Power: Against Disproportionate Punishment
- 10.5: Judicial Constraint: Against LWOP
- 10.6: Prosecutorial Discretion
- 10.7: Defense Counsel
- 10.8: Prison Administration: Conditions of Confinement
- 10.9: Sentencing Discretion: Judges vs. Juries
- 11: ***Optional Supplements***
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Criminal Law Fall 2022
(First published Aug 2022)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
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Criminal Law Spring 2017
(First published Jan 2017)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 4: IV. General Common Law Requirements + Constitutional & Statutory Standards
- 5: V. Homicide
- 6: VI. The Death Penalty: Constitutional Standards & Practice
- 7: VII. Rape & Sexual Assault
- 8: VIII. Defenses: Justification & Excuse
- 9: IX. Expanded & Group Liability
- 10: X. Discretion + Constitutional Powers, Values/Constraints
Criminal Law Spring 2017 incorporates additional material from:
- Criminal Law Fall 2021 (first published Aug 2021) with contributions from:
- Criminal Law Fall 2020 (first published Aug 2020) with contributions from:
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