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Prosecutors have an ethical obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence to defendants.

Laws against homosexual acts between consenting adults are unconstitutional.

Which of the following is true regarding the Second Amendment?

Under a typical statue prohibiting threats, a defendant who threatens to place a bomb in a public building may be convicted even if he or she does not actually place a bomb in the building.

Most crimes characterized as “crimes against the public” or public welfare crimes are malum prohibitum and not malum in se.

I am a human.

One of the purposes of criminal law is to discourage the same individual and others from committing crimes.  This is known as ______________, and it may be general or specific.

The first theft crime created as part of the common law was _____________.  Modern consolidated theft statutes have eliminated distinctions between this offense, embezzlement, and false pretenses.

Modern burglary statutes have eliminated the common law requirement that the structure be a dwellling.

In common-law terms, a person who intended an act and its consequences acted with: