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What are the criteria for determining that a witness is unavailable due to refusal according to 804(a)(2)?
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The "highest" and most important "interest" that a person can have in personal property is when they have......
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What is a privilege as it pertains to a witness being unavailable under 804(a)(1)?
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What are the criteria for determining that a witness is unavailable because they can't be present according to 804(a)(4)?
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The "common law" is composed of statutes, traditions and customs that date back hundreds of years. Arguably, the most important element in the common law and the element that "fleshes it out" so that it expands to meet new situations and developments is/are:
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When can judgments involving personal, family, or general history or a boundary be admissible according to 803(23)?
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What are the criteria for determining that a witness is unavailable due to a lack of memory according to 804(a)(3)?
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Assume that Colin viciously attacks Jed with a lead pipe intending to kill him. Jed is badly injured and falls into a coma. One year and six weeks after the attack, Jed finally dies. (Assume that there is no statute of limitations problem.) At common law, what was the most the prosecutor could charge Colin with? (Under the "old" time of death rule.)
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Stewie is one-year old and a "criminal genius." He decides to dispose of his family by burning down the house. He drugs his family members (a mother, father, brother and sister) so that they are unconscious and then burns the structure down. All four are killed. What will be the legal consequences to Stewie at common law?
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Both the medical profession and the legal profession regard "Insanity" as a ___________ term.
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What are the criteria for determining that a witness is unavailable due to a absent according to 804(a)(5)?
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The idea of actus reus refers to criminal intent, or the guilty mind.True False
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What will happen if you participate in reckless driving, a speed contest or an exhibition of speed, which includes cornering at high-speeds, spinning donuts or spinning your tires (also referred to as "burning rubber")?
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How many hours of supervised driving time must you complete before applying for your drivers license?
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while the court decided against enforcement of the restrictive covenant on constitutional grounds, can you think of a property law theory, based on the common law concepts of real covenants running with the land and equitable servitudes, that could be used by the shelleys to prevent enforcement of the restriction against them?
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When can a statement made under the belief of imminent death (dying declaration) be admissible according to 804(b)(2)?
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When can former testimony be admissible according to 804(b)(1)?
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A crime that is 'evil in itself" and which has been considered historically evil and completely intolerable by the common law and in most world cultures is:
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When can a statement against interest be admissible according to 804(b)(3)?
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Assume that a modern criminal prosecutor (in Ohio for example) wants to prosecute someone for a possible crime. The very first thing that must be present before a prosecution can take place is:
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When can a statement of personal or family history be admissible according to 804(b)(4)?
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Technically speaking (note - "technically speaking"), at common law, a simple and unwanted touching of another person that did not actually cause physical harm was technically called:
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The English King who is most responsible for establishing the basis of "modern" criminal law for Great Britain (in the 12th Century) and later America was:
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When can a statement be offered against a party that wrongfully caused the declarant's unavailability according to 804(b)(6)?
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