Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Some courts have determined that hands and feet are deadly weapons under statutes defining the offenses of aggravated battery.
2. Because of the age and vulnerability of minors, statutes prohibiting child abuse are strict liability crimes in many states.
3. The common law treated assault and battery as separate misdemeanors with an assault consisting of an offer to do bodily harm to another by using force and violence and a battery consisting of a completed assault.
4. Today all jurisdictions make assault an offense; most classify simple assaults and batteries as misdemeanors, while grading as felonies those perpetrated against public officers or involving more egregious conduct.
1. T
2. T
3. T
4. T
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a. Liverpool 15 b. Liverpool 27 c. Liverpool 38 d. Liverpool 41
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A. victim a stranger
B. little use of restraints
C. body hidden
D. may leave town/change job
________ women make up the largest percentage of female inmates in the United States.
A. Black B. Asian C. Hispanic D. White
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a. any copy of the document other than the original. b. testimony introduced when no documents are available. c. a photocopy of the original document made in the line of business. d. all of these are admissible as parol evidence