A nurse in a nursing home who forgets to feed a patient who cannot feed himself, causing the patient to starve to death, could be considered:
a. Murder
b. Criminally negligent homicide
c. Manslaughter
d. Capital murder
Answer: b. Criminally negligent homicide
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a. handled formally through a petition. b. discretionary but without bias. c. non-petitioned and probationary. d. handled informally.
An Iraqi source informed the 101st Airborne Division that several suspects, including Qusay and Uday, numbers two and three on the US Central Command's most-wanted list, were escaping from Iraq via Kuwait
a. True b. False
An offender may be classified as a(n) ________ because a statutorily defined event caused by the offender was alleged to have occurred while his or her age was below a statutorily specified age limit
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The marital privilege _____
a. was not recognized at common law b. is not recognized in federal courts c. is recognized in about half the states d. is recognized in all jurisdictions