Law and Justice, 3+4

1. Corpus delicti : the body of the crime

2. Defense : evidence and arguments offered by the defendant to show why they should not be held liable for a criminal charge

   1. Alibi : the defendant could not have committed the offense because he or she was somewhere else at the time of the crime

   2. Excuse : some personal condition or circumstance at the time of the act was such that the actor should not be held accountable under the criminal law

   3. Justification : the defendant admits committing the act in question but claims that it was necessary to avoid some greater evil.

   4. Procedural Defense : the defendant was in some significant way discriminated against in the justice process, or some important aspect of official procedure as not properly followed in the investigation or prosecution of the crime charged

   5. Self-defense : the defendant needed to inflict harm on another to ensure their own safety in the face of near-certain injury or death

3. Reasonable force  : a degree of force that is not appropriate In a given situation and is not excessive. Also, the minimum degree of force necessary to protect oneself

Section 4: Chapter 7 and slides

1. Exclusionary rule : incriminating information must be seized according to constitutional specifications of due process of it will not be allowed as evidence In a criminal trial

2. Warrantless search : an examination by police of a person, place, or thing without a written judicial order authorizing that activity

3. Probable cause : the necessary level of belief to allow for police arrest

4. Plain view : to lawfully seize evidence in plain view, officers must have a legal right to be in the viewing area

5. Emergency rule : under certain circumstances when it ruled that police office may enter a home without a warrant when they have an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury

6. Arrest : occurs whenever a law enforcement officer curtails a persons freedom to leave

7. Investigative detention : a temporary seizure of an individual by a police officer for investigative purposes

8. Reasonable suspicion : the level of suspicion that would justify an officer in making further inquiry.

9. Interrogation : The information-gathering activity of police officers that involves the direct questioning of suspects