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Chapter 3 Multiple choice questions
Mens rea
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What is '
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A process used by the courts to establish guilt
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A state of mind which may give rise to criminal liability
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The phrase is used when a defendant is found guilty of an offence
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A phrase which means 'innocent person'
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In many offences the
mens rea
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Aim
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Plan
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Objective
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Intention
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What is direct intention?
Where the consequence was what the defendant was aiming at
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Where the consequence was not what the defendant was aiming at, but occurred anyway
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Where the defendant had no intention to create a certain consequence
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Where the defendant didn't know what he was aiming at
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What is oblique intention?
Where the defendant didn't know what he was aiming at
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Where the defendant had no intention to create a certain consequence
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Where the consequence was what the defendant was aiming at
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Where the consequence was not what the defendant was aiming at although he saw it would happen, and occurr as a side effect if he was to achieve his aim
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Which of the following implies 'fault'?
Actus reus
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Strict liability
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Mens rea
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Defence
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Which of the following cases defined intention as 'a decision to bring about, in so far as it lies within the accused's power, [the prohibited consequence], no matter whether the accused desired that consequence of his act or not'?
Howells
(1977)
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Mohan
(1976)
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Lamiter
(1886)
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Sweet v Parsley
(1970)
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What word or phrase was used by the Court of Appeal in
Nedrick
(1986) as the appropriate term to be used to explain the meaning of intention?
Oblique intention
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Direct intention
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Recklessness
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Virtual certainty
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Which of the following cases involved the issue of whether the defendant foresaw a substantial risk of serious harm to the victim, his 3 month-old son, whom he threw four or five feet across the room causing him a fractured skull from which he died.
Maloney
(1985)
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Nedrick
(1986)
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Woollin
(1997)
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Walker and Hayles
(1990)
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Which of the following adjectives have the courts
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Necessary intent
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Basic intent
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Specific intent
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Ulterior intent
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The notion that _____ conveys is that of taking an unjustifiable risk.
Motive
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Intention
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Recklessness
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Irresponsibility
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