An honest and reasonable mistake of fact may be a criminal defense to most charges so long as the mistake negates mens rea.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: True
An honest and reasonable mistake of fact may be a criminal defense to most charges so long as the mistake negates mens rea.
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a. Females who are sexed in are given the least amount of respect. b. Females who are jumped in are viewed as "hood rats." c. Jumping in gives females little respect so it is a rare occurrence. d. "Fair fights" bring females the most amount of respect in gangs.
Missouri’s Parallel Universe program was created to help offenders transition from the prison to the community by:
a. attempting to make the prison environment approximate life outside of prison b. attempting to prepare inmates for community living by showing them multiple training videos and giving them written homework assignments c. attempting to make community housing resemble prison life d. attempting to give offenders more freedom by allowing them to live in the community during the day while returning to the prison at night
________ loans involve loans on real estate to borrowers that do not exist or are not in fact the real borrowers.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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a. Drug/alcohol facilitated rape b. Incapacitated rape c. Statutory rape d. Forcible rape