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Criminal Law

Samaha, Joel

Chapter 7

Parties to Crime and Vicarious Liability - all with Video Answers

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Section 1

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Problem 1

The _____ rule or principle states that everyone who is involved in a crime,
whether before, during, or after, may be responsible for that crime.
a. vicarious liability
b. complicity
c. Pinkerton
d. Wharton

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Problem 2

Mr. A robs the bank. Mr. B waits outside with the getaway car. Under the
common law, with regard to the bank robbery, Mr. B is a/n _____.
a. principal in the first degree
b. accessory-after-the-fact
c. accessory-before-the-fact
d. principal in the second degree

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Problem 3

Mr. A commits a burglary. A few days before, he got the burglary tools from Mr.
B., who has no other involvement in the burglary. Under the common law
approach, Mr. B is a/n _____.
a. accessory-before-the-fact
b. accessory-after-the-fact
c. principle in the third degree
d. principal in the second degree

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Problem 4

An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime is a _____.
a. solicitation
b. conspiracy
c. complicity crime
d. vicarious liability offense

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Problem 5

The current approach to complicity _____.
a. maintains most of the common law distinctions
b. eliminates the principle and accessory classifications of the common law
c. retains the common law terminology of accessories before the fact
d. retains the common law terminology of principal in the second degree

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Problem 6

Accomplice liability _____.
a. requires actus reus but not mens rea
b. requires mens rea but no actus reus
c. requires both actus reus and mens rea
d. is a strict liability offense

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Problem 7

The Pinkerton rule is applicable only to _____.
a. accomplices
b. the doctrine of complicity
c. conspiracies
d. accessories

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Problem 8

Vicarious liability arises most frequently in employment or _____ relationships.
a. personal
b. producer-consumer
c. family
d. business

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Fathima Zahra
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Problem 9

To convict a person of being an accessory-after-the-fact, the government must
show that _____.
a. the person intended to aid the criminal after the crime
b. there was a conspiracy to aid after the crime that was entered into before
the crime
c. the Pinkerton rule applies
d. the person provided aid to a person whom he knew had committed a
misdemeanor

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Problem 10

In general, merely being present at the scene of a crime ______.
a. is sufficient to create accomplice liable
b. is not sufficient to create accomplice liability
c. is the actus reus of accomplice liability
d. creates a presumption that there was a conspiracy to commit the crime

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Problem 11

Corporate criminal law is the creature of _________.
a. federal law
b. state common law
c. state codes
d. administrative laws

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Problem 12

In State v. Akers, the New Hampshire appellate court overturned the parents’
vicarious liability conviction for acts of their children because the law _____.
a. violated equal protection because it applied only to parents
b. violated substantive due process by punishing parenthood
c. was a bill of attainder
d. was overbroad

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Problem 13

13. if _____.
a. the actor has a duty to prevent the crime and fails to prevent or attempt to
prevent it
b. the actor secretly hopes the crime will be completed
c. the actor knows the victim but does not intervene
d. the actor knows the criminal but does not intervene

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Problem 14

The case of State v. Walden, in which the defendant was charged for not
preventing her one-year-old son from being beaten, illustrates _____.
a. the exception to the mere presence rule
b. the exception to the rule against accessories-after-the-fact
c. the rule of vicarious liability
d. the rule of accomplice liability

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Problem 15

The rule that the conspiracy to commit a crime and the crimes committed
pursuant to the conspiracy are separate offenses is called the _____ rule.
a. Wharton
b. Peoni
c. Brady
d. Pinkerton

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Problem 16

The _____ of accomplice liability is frequently phrased in terms of aiding,
abetting, or assisting another who commits a crime.
a. mens rea
b. actus reus
c. circumstances
d. concurrence

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Problem 17

According to the U.S. Supreme Court in Bailey v. U.S. (1969), flight from the
scene of a crime _____.
a. by itself proves accomplice liability
b. by itself proves guilty of the crime
c. is not evidence of accomplice liability
d. by itself cannot prove accomplice liability

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Problem 18

In State v. Ulvinen (1983), the Minnesota appellate court held that _____ alone
could not prove accomplice liability for murder.
a. being related to the victim
b. living in the same household as the victim
c. passive approval of the crime
d. refusing to cooperate with the police

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Problem 19

The rule of the Peoni case requires that the accomplice not only intended to aid
the offender and knew of the crime to be committed, but that the accomplice also
intended or desired that _____.
a. the crime be committed
b. there be a conspiracy
c. the actual offender not be caught
d. the accomplice not be caught

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Problem 20

The early decisions on accomplice liability held that the only mens rea required
for accomplice liability was intent _____.
a. to aid the offender knowing a crime would be committed
b. to form a conspiracy
c. that the offender commit the crime
d. to benefit from the crime committed

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Problem 21

Crimes involving being an accessory-after-the-fact typically have _____ mens rea
element(s).
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four

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Problem 22

Most accessory-after-the-fact criminal statutes contain _____ circumstance
element(s).
a. no
b. one
c. two
d. three

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Problem 23

Unlike accomplice liability, vicarious liability does not require that the person
being held vicariously liable _____.
a. participate in the crime
b. be aware of the circumstances
c. be involved in a conspiracy
d. not be involved in a conspiracy

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Problem 24

Strict liability crimes have no _____.
a. actus reus element
b. voluntary act element
c. legality requirement
d. mens rea element

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Problem 25

Vicarious liability is based on _____.
a. benefiting from the crime
b. being involved in the crime
c. relationships
d. personal actus reus and mens rea

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Problem 26

Vicarious liability of individuals usually involves _____.
a. homicides
b. traffic tickets
c. felonies
d. conspiracies

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Problem 27

_____ laws make parents liable for the crimes of their children, if the parents fail
to supervise and control their children.
a. Parental responsibility
b. Vicarious parental liability
c. Conspiracy
d. Parental combination

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Vishal Sharma
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Problem 28

Corporate liability is always a form of _____ liability.
a. co-conspirator
b. accomplice
c. accessory
d. vicarious

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Problem 29

In State v. Chism, the court noted that Louisiana law differed from common law
with regard to the required mens rea for accessory liability. It held that Louisiana
law ________.
a. required that Chism had to know that a completed felony had been
committed.
b. required that Chism had to have reasonable grounds to believe that a
felony had been committed.
c. required only that a felony be committed and Chism aid the offender after
the fact—regardless of whether he knew about the felony
d. required that Chism not only aid in helping the offender after the fact, but
also take at least a minimal role in accomplishing the felony

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Problem 30

In State v. Tomaino the court had to determine whether the owner was liable for
the clerk renting pornographic material to a minor. The court found _______.
a. the clerk was not responsible because the “victim” looked old enough to
buy the video.
b. the owner was not responsible because he had properly trained the clerk
and he was therefore not reckless.
c. that the pertinent Ohio statute required personal action so the owner could
not be vicarious liable.
d. that the owner was responsible because he failed to supervise the clerk and
failed to post a sign warning of no underage rentals.

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