Explain the three (3) different aspects of individual personality that control behavior (id, ego, superego) and how they interact with one another.
What will be an ideal response?
Deals with the modern concept of insanity in English Common Law. The legal standard is that he didn't know what he was doing or didn't know that it was wrong. The three presumptions are: 1) every person is presumed sane unless the contrary can be proven; 2) a person suffering a partial delusion should be dealt with as if the circumstance of delusion is real; 3) to establish defense on the grounds of insanity, it must be proved that five things existed: At the time of committing the act, the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from a disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, and if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.
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For Fourth Amendment purposes, government officials can include:
A) Police officers. B) Regulatory officials. C) Private security guards used in place of the police. D) All of the above
Fungible evidence is that evidence which cannot be manipulated or altered
a. True b. False
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack pushed Jill down, she broke her arm, and Jack stole the water. Jill called the police on her wet cell phone and signed a complaint against Jack, who the police subsequently arrested. Jack said he didn't know what he was doing because he fell down once before and suffered from reoccurring brain trauma. Is there a crime? What is it? Is there any defense? What could it be, and where will it likely be reported?
What will be an ideal response?
If the defendant has a reasonable alternative, and harm is not imminent, the defendant
a. may not utilize the necessity defense b. may utilize the necessity defense c. may utilize the necessity defense only to take the life of another d. may utilize the necessity defense in misdemeanor, not felony cases