Sentencing Considerations and Systems
Purposes of Punishment
Limitations on Criminal Punishment
General Principles of Interpretation
Introduction to Criminal Lawyering
Elements of Just Punishment
Common Law
Actus Reus (including Omissions)
Mens Rea
Strict Liability v. Implied Mens Rea
To What Elements Does a State of Mind Extend?
The Hierarchy of States of Mind
Concurrence
Model Penal Code
Default Rules of Construction
Mistake Under the M.P.C.
Rapier Problem: Interpretation of the Elements of Rape - MO
Rapier Problem: Interpretation of the Elements of Rape - KS
Intoxication
Legislative Drafting
Introduction to Homicide
Causation
Murder
Defenses - Self-Defense, Defense of Third Persons, Law Enforcement Defense
Voluntary Manslaughter - Provocation
Felony Murder and Misdemeanor Manslaughter
Accomplice Liability in Felony Murder
Risk Creation Homicide
Common Law Crimes
Liability for the Acts of Others
Defenses
Inchoate Crimes
The final will cover material from the whole semester