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.

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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

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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

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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

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