Criminal Law (bar exam) Exam
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1. Liability for attempt - ANS ✓a) MERGES into completed target
offense
B) IMPOSSIBILITY
--1) factual impossibility is NOT a defense
--2) legal impossibility IS a defense
2. Battery - ANS ✓-Actus Reus → UNWANTED TOUCHING of another
person
-Men’s Rea → GENERAL INTENT (greater than, or equal to, criminal
negligence; awareness of acting in a proscribed manner)
-injury NOT required
3. Aggravated battery - ANS ✓battery +
1) deadly or dangerous weapon;
2) serious bodily injury; OR
3) child or police victim
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4. Assault - ANS ✓-Actus Reus → attempted battery OR putting
someone in REASONABLE APPREHENSION/FEAR of an imminent
battery
-Men’s Rea → SPECIFIC INTENT
-assault MERGES into battery once unwanted touching occurs (attempts
merge into completed offenses)
5. Aggravated assault - ANS ✓assault +
1) deadly weapon, OR
2) with intent to rape, maim, or murder
6. Murder - ANS ✓Actus Reus → unlawful killing of another person
Men’s Rea → MALICE AFORETHOUGHT
7. Malice aforethought (murder) - ANS ✓1) intent to kill;
2) intent to inflict serious bodily injury
3) gross recklessness in risking human life ("depraved heart" or "implied
malice"); OR
4) felony murder
8. Felony murder - ANS ✓Actus Reus → killing during the course of a
felony
Mens Rea → none (strict liability)
9. Liability limitations for felony murder - ANS ✓(a) killing
--common law: by anyone (e.g., crime victim or police)
--modern: by (co)defendant
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(b) during → to and from scene
(c) felony → proven beyond a reasonable doubt
(d) foreseeability → broadly applied; intent irrelevant
10. Voluntary manslaughter - ANS ✓Actus Reus → MURDER
(intentional killing) and
Mens Rea → HEAT OF PASSION
11. Heat of passion (voluntary manslaughter) - ANS ✓i) sudden
and intense reaction
Ii) adequate provocation
--(a) inflame ordinary person
--(b) words alone INSUFFICIENT
--(c) not enough time for reasonable person to cool off
12. --(d) ▵ lost control
Iii) NO cooling off period
13. Recklessness or Negligence Involuntary Manslaughter -
ANS ✓Actus Reus → unlawful killing of another person
Mens Rea → mere recklessness OR negligence
NOTE: gross recklessness = depraved heart murder
14. Strict Liability Involuntary Manslaughter - ANS ✓-Actus
Reus → killing during course of MISDEMEANOR (OR felony not
included in felony murder)
-Mens Rea → NONE (strict liability)
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