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Match Each Word with the Appropriate Definition or Description

Question 61

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Match each word with the appropriate definition or description.

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Derivative liability

Involvement in a crime as an accomplice.

Accessory

Common law term used to describe the primary offender in a crime.

Complicity

A jury instruction regarding the mens rea of accomplice liability that allows the jury to infer knowledge on the part of the defendant from indifference to finding the truth.

Ostrich instruction

A crime that can only be committed by a specific person or class of individuals.

Accessory before the fact

Under common law, someone who intentionally assists the principal in the first degree with the commission of a crime and who is actually or constructively present at the time of the crime.

Principal in the First Degree

Under common law, a person who helps the principal after the criminal event takes place.

Nonproxyable offenses

Modern term to describe someone who participates after the crime is already committed.

Accomplice

When the defendant derives or obtains his criminal liability from the primary offender.

Principal in the Second Degree

An individual who aids before or during the commission of a crime.

Accessory after the fact

Under common law, someone solicits, encourages, or commands another to offend.