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1. The exclusionary rule

2. Is simple battery malum prohibitum or malum in se?

3. A statute prohibiting interracial marriage is violative of the constitutional right to privacy.

4. John steals a controlled substance from a pharmacy for his wife, who is ill. They do not have the money to purchase the drug, which was prescribed by the wife's physician. John's intention of helping his wife is best characterized as his

5. Factual guilt is the same as legal guilt.

6. In most jurisdictions, a defendant is granted a new trial because of the quality of his or her trial counsel if it is shown that the attorney's service fell below the average of the state's criminal defense bar.

7. Under the common law, it was not rape for a husband to physically force his wife to have sex with him.

8. Corpus delecti is best defined as

9. Assume that John fired a gun at Pat, intending to injure but not kill her. However, because of his poor aim, he fatally hit her in the ear. Under the Model Penal Code, he acted

10. A person who commits a battery may be held liable in both civil and criminal courts.

11. A statute that makes it a crime to post messages containing racially hateful content on the Internet is violative of the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause.

12. The mens rea element of receiving stolen property has two aspects. First, there must be an intent to deprive the owner of the property. Second, the prosecution must prove

13. Burglary is a specific-intent crime.

14. At common law, the mens rea of attempt was

15. A statute that makes it a crime to 'write, speak, or otherwise communicate a belief that is offensive to the ordinary member of any racial, ethnic, or religious group' is most likely violative of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

16. All crimes must have two basic elements: a mental element (mens rea) and a physical element (actus reus).

17. Under modern statutes, a woman must forcibly resist a rape; otherwise, the rapist may not be convicted.

18. A statute that enhances a penalty for a crime because it was committed with racial animus is violative of the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause.

19. The Model Penal Code

20. Legal assistants may not represent criminal defendants in court.

21. The burden of proof in civil cases is

22. A person who lies when testifying before a grand jury has committed subordination of perjury.

23. In common-law terms, a person who intended an act but not its consequences acted with

24. Mature, consenting adults may engage in homosexual conduct in the United States without interference of the government.

25. First Amendment protection of speech includes other forms of expression.