Criminal Law Summary Notes
Designed specifically for the first year law student! Darrows Legal Notes: Criminal Law. Used by more law students than any other book. You've seen your classmates pore through them and soon you'll know why: Darrows Legal Notes are among the best commercial law school outlines available.
Most first-year students think that the substantive side of Criminal Law is easy. But as many students find out every year, the subject can be very subtle indeed. Darrows Legal Notes: Criminal Law helps you spot and understand these subtleties. Virtually every Model Penal Code provision is analyzed in detail.
Criminal Law topics covered include:
Actus Reus and Mens Rea; Causation: Cause in Fact, Proximate Cause; Unintended Victims; Unintended Manner of Harm; Responsibility: Insanity, Diminished Responsibility, Automatism, Intoxication, Infancy; Justification and Excuse: Duress, Necessity, Self-Defense, Defense of Others, Defense of Property; Consent; Entrapment; Attempt: Mental State, Mere Preparation; Impossibility; Conspriacy: The Agreement, Mens Rea, The Conspiratorial Objective, Multiple Objectives, Multiple Parties, Duration of Conspiracy, The Plurality Requirement, Accomplice; Liability and Solicitation: Parties to Crime, The Act Requirement, Mental State, Additional Crimes by Principal, Guilt of the Principal, Withdrawal by the Accomplice, Victims as Accomplices, Post-Crime Assistance, Solicitation; Crimes Against the Person: Homicide, Murder, Felony Murder, Degrees of Murder, Voluntary Manslaughter, Involuntary Manslaughter; Assult, Battery & Mayhem; Rape; Kidnapping; Theft Crimes: Larceny, Embezzlement, False Pretenses, Consolidation of Theft, Burglary; Robbery; Blackmail and Extortion.
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