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When the 13 colonies were established in America, they adopted England’s:

Although the U.S. Constitution does not specifically mention a right to privacy, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that such a right is implicit in three areas of the Constitution.  Which of these is not one of those areas:

Match the types of accomplice or other participant with the definitions.

Michelle Banks was part of a group of fifteen people being removed by the police from an Air Force Recruiting Office during a Viet Nam war protest. Michelle yelled “F#*k the Air Force” while police were escorting her out. Why couldn’t she be successfully prosecuted for using “fighting words?”

What is the term used to describe when a jury, having the power to acquit a criminal defendant, does so in complete disregard of the rules of law and facts before it, the jury.

The principle purpose of criminal law is to:

Why is the right of the people to assemble publically not absolute?

The ex post facto principle prohibits:

Proximate cause is that cause, from among all the causes-in-fact that may exist, which is the legally defined cause of the social harm.

Numerous judicial decisions hold that any person is criminally liable when he or she stands by and does nothing to help someone else in jeopardy, even if no special relationship exists.