CJUS 400 Test 2

CJUS 400 Test 2 Liberty University

CJUS 400 Quiz: Accomplices, Inchoate Crimes, Homicides, and Freedom Limitations

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CJUS 400 Quiz: Crimes Against Persons and Property

CJUS 400 Quiz: Substance Abuse, Terrorism, and Other Specialized Crimes

1. What are procedural due process claims under the Fourteenth Amendment based on?
2. Which of the following is NOT true of the crime of solicitation?
3. Which of the following is TRUE of aiding and abetting?
4. Regarding euthanasia, what most accurately reflects how it is treated legally?
5. True threats can come in which of the following forms?
6. The U.S. Supreme Court established important guidelines to define obscenity in the famous case of .
7. Where a criminal charge is based only on a communication, most courts have applied the “fighting words” doctrine only where the communication is made .
8. Which of the following is NOT one of the questions that always arises when considering preliminary offenses?
9. What has the Supreme Court ruled in recent cases regarding sentences of life imprisonment without parole for juvenile defendants?
10. What is true about the “born alive” requirement?
11. In which of the following situations could the doctrine of imperfect self-defense apply to manslaughter?
12. ??? Why did the Supreme Court hold in Blakely v. Washington that the sentence was invalid under the Sixth Amendment? 0 out of 2 points
13. Why did the Supreme Court uphold the use of corporal punishment in schools in Ingraham v. Wright?
14. Which of the following was TRUE of the death penalty at the time the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights were ratified?
15. In United States v. O’Brien (2010) the Supreme Court stated that a fact was a “sentencing factor” only if it was not
16. Which if the following is NOT true of true threats?
17. Anti-cruising laws are examples of laws that might be challenged as violations of .
18. Which of the following BEST describes the Pinkerton rule?
19. Why did the Supreme Court strike down the capital punishment sentence in Ring v. Arizona (2002)?
20. Many states have imposed higher standards for “fighting words” when they are directed at whom among the following?
21. Which is an accurate description of the doctrine of transferred intent?
22. Which of the following is TRUE of a common design?
23. Under which of the following rules can all involved be punished when a number of people have a coordinated scheme to do an unlawful act?
24. How do U.S. courts and legislatures today define the scope of the felony murder rule?
25. Which of the following would be an example of speech that fails the clear and present danger test?
26. Why are preliminary crimes not always present when an underlying crime occurs?
27. Anticipatory crimes are commonly referred to as
28. Which of the following types of loud speech and loud noise is NOT among those types that cities and states can forbid?
29. What is MOST correct about how U.S. states today classify the crime of manslaughter?
30. Which of the following is TRUE of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause?
31. Which of the following actions would result in a defense to a conspiracy charge that is recognized and provided by the Model Penal Code?
32. Which of the following is NOT protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution?
33. The crime of conspiracy is of the preliminary crimes.
34. All new death penalty statutes provide for which of the following?
35. How many states permit law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns?
36. Which of the following is TRUE of bad thoughts by themselves?
37. What must be proven to convict someone of voluntary manslaughter?
38. Which of the following is TRUE of the right to assemble?
39. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes announced which of the following doctrines in the 1919 case of Schenck v. United States?
40. Under the “deadly weapon” doctrine, what factor does a jury NOT consider during a murder trial to determine whether an object was a deadly weapon or not?
41. Which of the following principles has the Court used to evaluate the constitutionality of a challenged punishment?
42. hich of the following is true about Oregon’s Death with Dignity law?
43. Which of the following is always required by the corpus delicti rule in criminal cases?
44. Which of the following accurately reflects a reason for a conviction of manslaughter rather than murder?
45. Which of the following is TRUE of Furman v. Georgia?
46. Which of the following MUST occur in a stalking case before the federal stalking statute would kick in?
47. States often have which two types of solicitation statutes?
48. Which of the following is almost always true when a person who has formulated the intent to commit a crime, but has taken no actions in furtherance of the crime?
49. Which of the following was included in cases with convictions of involuntary manslaughter?
50. Which amendment did the Supreme Court cite in their decision in Ingraham v. Wright?