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Willow told Max to accompany her into Frida’s unlocked barn and retrieve an expensive black saddle that she said she had loaned to Frida. Max accompanied Willow to Frida’s barn, opened the door, found a black saddle hanging high above the ground, and climbed a ladder to reach it. Max handed the saddle down to Willow, and the two left with it together. In fact, the saddle belonged to Frida, and when Frida discovered the saddle missing, she suspected that Willow was the thief. Frida used a screwdriver to break into Willow’s house to find the saddle. Upon discovering the saddle on Willow’s kitchen table, Frida took it back and called the police. The jurisdiction follows the common law, except that burglary covers structures in addition to dwellings and the nighttime element has been eliminated. Which, if any, of these individuals is guilty of burglary?

Julian did not like a family that belonged to a particular ethnicity and lived next door to him. Julian paid a friend, Leo, to set fire to the family’s residence. Leo forced open a side door leading into the kitchen. After searching the home to make sure no one was there, Leo rigged the gas oven to explode after a short delay. Leo quickly left the house. The oven exploded a few minutes later, and the house was completely destroyed by the resulting fire. Unbeknownst to Leo, the family had modified their attic, and a cousin was sleeping there at the time. The cousin was killed in the fire.Which of the following best supports Julian’s conviction for felony murder in connection with these events?

Dante agreed with Isaac to purchase heroin from Isaac in order to sell it on a city street corner. Unbeknownst to Dante, Isaac was an undercover police officer whose only purpose was to arrest distributors of drugs. Dante made a down payment for the heroin and agreed to pay the remainder after he sold it on the street. As soon as Isaac handed over the heroin, other officers moved in and arrested Dante. The jurisdiction follows the common law approach to conspiracy.Could Dante properly be convicted of conspiring to distribute drugs?

What’s your fave holiday treat?

An is a polymorphic sequence of repeating base pairs, whereas a is a point mutation involving only a single base pair.

Which of the following correctly matches the hormone with its function in the female reproductive cycle?

During spermatogenesis, which stage immediately follows meiosis I?

Which part of the uterine tube is the usual site of fertilization?

Instructions: Answer any four of the following five questions. If you answer more than four, only the first four will count. Be sure to answer all parts of the question! Partial credit is available. (15 points each) [Note that Canvas/Honorlock may list the four questions as worth 15 points each and the last question as worth 0 points. You can ignore that.]   Describe Thomson’s account of when and why killing is permissible in self-defense. Then apply her account to her examples of (1) the Villainous Aggressor, (2) the Innocent Aggressor, (3) the Innocent Threat, and (4) the bystander. For each case, briefly characterize the kind of person in question (e.g., what makes someone an innocent as opposed to a villainous aggressor?) and give an example of a self-defense scenario involving them (you can use Thomson’s examples or come up with your own), then apply Thomson’s account to reach a conclusion about whether killing that person to save one’s own life is permissible.

“Celebratory gunfire” is the practice of shooting guns into the air to celebrate holidays. It is illegal in many areas (including Florida) because people are sometimes struck and even killed by the falling bullets. Does the doctrine of double effect imply that celebratory gunfire is morally permissible? Explain why or why not, being sure to describe the relevant good and bad effects and how the three conditions associated with the doctrine of double effect that we considered in class apply to this case.