Business Law Worksheet 1

An individual who has been the subject of a crime can prosecute the alleged criminal

Party Who Brings Suit

Wrongful Act

Burden Of Proof

Remedy

A physical act can be a tort, a crime, or both.

Which tort provides a basis for a criminal prosecution as well as for a tort action?

Petty Offenses

Misdemeanors

Felonies

Generally, for a criminal act to have occurred, a person must have committed the guilty act and had a wrongful mental state.

The circumstances under which a person can be criminally negligent involve:

Criminal negligence can occur when a defendant was not aware of the risk, but

Many of the over 4,000 federal criminal offense do not require a specifically wrongful mental state.

In Latin, a wrongful mental state is known as:

Because a corporation is a legal entity and not a person, there can never be corporate criminal liability.

Under the ____________________ doctrine, a court may impose criminal liability on a corporate officer who knew about a given criminal violation.

Which one of the following is NOT part of the five broad categories of criminal acts?

Violent Crimes

The key difference between larceny and robbery is that:

Olivia typically takes off her diamond ring while she works and puts it back on to go to lunch and when she leaves. One lunch break, she leaves it on her desk. Jenna takes the ring and does not return it. Jenna has probably committed the crime of

Obtaining goods by false pretenses is a form of theft that involves

If you know that a friend has given you stolen goods, you will be guilty of ______________ stolen goods.

The willful burning of a building is the crime of

One of the following is NOT a good example of a white-collar crime:

Criminals often resort to money laundering because they wish to conceal the identity, source, and destination of illegally gained funds.

Today the most common public order crimes do NOT include:

The broad language of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) has allowed it to be applied to cases that have little or nothing to do with organized crime.

On her local radio station, Jessica Aign advertises a "magic" cream that corrects baldness, even though she knows that the cream is just hand lotion. She may be tried:

Generally, you can use the amount of non-deadly force necessary to protect yourself, your dwelling, or other property and you will avoid criminal liability.

One of the following is usually NOT an acceptable defense to criminal liability:

A mistake of fact, as opposed to a mistake of law, can often excuse criminal liability if the mistake negates the mental state necessary to commit the crime.

Which one of the following crimes enjoys no statute of limitations:

The ____________ Amendment reads in part that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Sal is arrested on suspicion of armed robbery. His lawyer and he engage in _______________ with the prosecuting attorney so that Sal can be granted immunity from prosecution for that serious crime.