Match the following

A) Defendant is culpable if completion of the crime is within grasp, although the defendant's act need not be the penultimate act.
B) Defendant must act in dangerous proximity to the crime to be culpable. Acts remotely connected to the crime are not adequate.
C) Defendant is culpable once he or she has committed and indispensable act.
D) Defendant is culpable if he or she has unequivocally manifested an intent to commit the crime.
E) Defendant is culpable if it is likely that he or she would have followed through with the crime.
F) Defendant is culpable if he or she took substantial steps toward the commission of the crime.

1) Dangerous proximity
2) Physical proximity
3) Indispensable element
4) Unequivocal
5) Probable desistance
6) Substantial step


Answers: 1) B 2) A 3) C 4) D 5) E 6) F

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