American Law: Unit 2

Stanley approached Lisa, an undercover police officer, and asked her to kill his father. Stanley is guilty of

• attempted murder

• entrapment

• murder

• solicitation

Taking items from a store without paying for them is called

• cybercrime

• shoplifting

• duress

• entrapment

The unlawful taking of property by someone whom it was entrusted is called

• embezzlement

• arson

• necessity

• solicitation

Verdict under which the defendant is sent to a mental hospital until he or she recovers and then is transferred to prison

• arson

• insanity

• duress

• incarceration

Offering a fake check to someone as a genuine check

• shoplifting

• necessity

• forgery

• entrapment

Destruction of property by willful and malicious burning

• arson

• misdemeanor

• noncriminal homicide

• cybercrime

Defense used whereby the defendant admits to committing the crime but claims that he/she was persuaded to do so by a law enforcement officer

• embezzlement

• alibi

• entrapment

• duress

a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when a criminal act took place

• alibi

• insanity

• duress

• necessity

Must be proved by the prosecutor beyond a reasonable doubt to win a conviction

• duress

• guilt

• accomplice

• principal

Killing in which there is no intent to kill at all

• felony murder

• first-degree murder

• involuntary manslaughter

• misdemeanor