Crim Law Ch 7

death caused by unexpected or uninteded means.

Diff. levels of intent

death that is the result of a purposeful human act lawfully undetaken in the reasonanle belief that no ham would result.

• Permitted under the law
• Justifiable for the good of society
• Self-defense
• Without blame

• A killing conducted in a manner that the criminal law does no prohibit.
• Invovles some sort of fault but not criminal.
• Vehicular accident where the driver was not neligent but excusable.

Purposeful, knowing, reckless, or negligent killing of one human being by another.

Unlawful killing of a human being, carried out with malice or planned in advance. (w/ malice aforethought)

Killing of another without malice aforethought. (No malice or premeditation)

7 years

A confession is not enough. Enough evidence of death is needed.

determined by a flat reading on an EEG

"Cessation of life"; heart & respiration cease.

• Common law requirement that homicide prosecutions could not take place if the victim did not die within a year and a day from the time that the fatal act occurred.
• If they died during that time period = conviction

Voluntary, conscious conduct. An affirmative act is not an omission or a failure to act.

the first cause of events whose ending result is foreseeable.

• An unlawful killing
• Of a human being
• With malice aforethought

A person who knowingly or intentionally kills another human being.

• Act of deliberating, mediating on, or planning a couse of action such as a crime.
• leads to 1st degree

An unjustifiable, inexcusable, and unmitigated person-endangering state of mind.

• Posion
• Torture
• Lying in wait

• Rape
• Arson
• Torture
• Robbery
• Kidnapping
• Criminal Gang Activity

• Unjustifiable conduct that is extremely negligent and results in the death of a human being;
• Or the killing of a human being with extreme atrocity.

Murder for which the death penalty is authorized by law.

• Rule that established murder liability for a defendant if another person dies during the commission of certain felonies.
• (Arson, rape, robbery, deal/manufactoring certain drugs, etc..)

Provocation that "would cause a reasonable person to lose self-control."

a cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind of the defendant incapable of objective reflection.

Unintentional killing for which criminal liability is imposed but that does not constitute murder.