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| Each chapter concludes with Discussion Questions | |
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| A Note to Students | |
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| Introduction to Criminal Law | |
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| Criminal Law | |
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| The Common Law | |
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| Tradition Holland v. State of Florida Deciding | |
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| What Conduct Is Deemed Criminal | |
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| Common Law and Criminal | |
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| Codes Criminal and Civil | |
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| Law Katko v. Briney Classification of Offenses | |
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| Felonies and Misdemeanors | |
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| Federal Form of Government | |
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| Federal Criminal Law Direct | |
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| Federal Interests Indirect | |
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| Federal Interests | |
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| The Purposes of Punishment | |
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| Retribution Gregg v. Georgia | |
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| Deterrence Incapacitation | |
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| Rehabilitation Procedural | |
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| Considerations Jury Trials vs. Bench Trials | |
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| The Order of Trial Jury Selection | |
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| Challenges to the Panel Opening Statements | |
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| The Presentation of the Prosecution's Case in Chief | |
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| The Presentation of the Defendant's Case Case in Chief | |
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| The Presentation of the Prosecution's Rebuttal Case | |
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| The Defense Motion for Acquittal Closing Arguments Jury Instructions | |
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| The Jury's Verdict Motions After Verdict | |
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| The Supremacy Clause | |
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| Constitutional Limitations on the Definition and Punishment of Criminal Offenses | |
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| Prohibitions Against Bills of Attainder | |
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| Due Process Substantive | |
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| Due Process Precision Vagueness | |
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| City of Chicago v. Jesus Morales et al. Overbreadth | |
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| The Right to Privacy Griswold v. Connecticut | |
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| Criminalizing Conduct Deemed Immoral Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Bonadio Commonwealth of | |
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| Procedural Due Process "Megan's Law" State v. Bani Equal | |
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| Protection Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia | |
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| Prohibitions Against Ex Post Facto | |
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| Laws Cruel and Unusual Punishment Barbaric | |
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| Punishments Gregg v. Georgia | |
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| Disproportionate Punishments | |
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| Harmelin v. Michigan Atkins v. Commonwealth Virginia | |
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| General Principles of Criminal Liability | |
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| The Criminal Act/Actus Reus Criminal Act or Status? | |
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| Robinson v. California Voluntariness | |
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| State of Arizona v. Miguel Angel | |
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| Lara Criminal Liability in the Absence of an Act (Omissions) | |
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| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. John Barry | |
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| Kellam Is Possession an Act? Byrd v. Texas | |
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| Presumptions and Actus Reus Ulster County Court v. Allen | |
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| Double Jeopardy Considerations Brown v. Ohio Criminal | |
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| Intent/Mens Rea Mala in Se Offenses | |
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| Mala Prohibita Offenses Defining Criminal Intent | |
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| The Traditional Common Law Approach State v. Gordon | |
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| The Doctrine of Transferred Intent People v. Scott | |
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| The Model Penal Code Approach Furr v. State Presumptions and Criminal | |
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| Intent Sandstrom v. Montana Concurrence | |
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| Strict Liability | |
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| The People v. Juan J. Coria Causation | |
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| Factual Causation Proximate | |
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| Causation Commonwealth v. Berggren | |
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| Independent Intervening Cause | |
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| People v. Saavedra-Rodriguez | |
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| Complicity and Vicarious | |
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| Liability Complicity Complicity | |
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| Under the Common Law People v. Norris | |
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| Proving Complicity State v. Mobbley Oregon v. Allred <br | |