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Salvatore  refused to pay his court ordered child support.  The judge ordered him jailed until he complied.  Under which of these does the judge find his authority to order Salvatore jailed?

The common law felony murder rule originally created murder liability for all deaths that occurred as a result of the felony participants ____ the felony.

There are four general types of child abuse.  Name three of them.

Mr. Pomme bought a TV set from a man  whose name he did not know and whom he had never seen before.  The man approached Mr. Pomme at Sheetz gas station and mini-mart in Haymarket.  As Mr. Pomme looked over the almost new TV, he noticed what appeared to be a social security number engraved on the bottom of the TV set.  Before he paid a very low price for the TV and left Sheetz with it, Mr. Pomme asked the man what the number was and where he got the TV.  The man responded, “You really don’t want to know.”  What offense has Mr. Pomme committed?  Explain why/how you reached your conclusion.

Punishment is relative.

Which of the following is a defense used when a person’s intended end constitutes a crime, but the actor does not complete the act that would have been a crime because of circumstances unknown to him or her or beyond his or her control?

A defendant must prove the __________ to be acquitted of a crime because of self-defense. 

Name the four situations in which law enforcement officers are authorized to use non-deadly force.

Match the correct Constitutional Amendment with the statements shown.

In a process known as “nationalizing the Bill of Rights” the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to give citizens of the states the same constitutional criminal procedure rights that: