Penal Code Definitions

_____ means a person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action.

• Another

• Actor

• Person

• Subject

_____ includes authority, board, bureau, commission, council, department, district, division, and office.

• Agency

• Association

• Fraternity

• Government

_____ means a person other than the actor.

• Subject

• Person

• Another

• Suspect

_____ means a government or governmental subdivision or agency, trust, partnership, or two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest.

• Agency

• Association

• Benefit

• Gang

_____ means anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage, including benefit to any other person in whose welfare the beneficiary is interested.

• Gain

• Coerce

• Benefit

• Control

_____ means physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition.

• Injury

• Duress

• Hurt

• Bodily Injury

_____ means a facility owned, leased, or operated by the state, or by a vendor under contract with the state, that houses only persons who have been civilly committed as sexually violent predators.

• Jail

• Correctional Facility

• Civil Commitment Facility

• Corporation

_____ means a threat, however communicated.

• Threat

• Coercion

• Inflict

• Harm

_____ means a act or omission and its accompanying mental state.

• Conduct

• Act

• Coercion

• Control

_____ means assent in fact, whether express or apparant.

• Consent

• Effective Consent

• Act

• Coerce