1. What is the difference between civil law and criminal law?
2. What is the burden of proof in a criminal law case? In a civil law case?
3. In criminal law, who brings suit?
4. What two elements must exist for a person to be convicted of a crime?
5. Describe actus reus.
6. Describe mens rea.
7. Give three examples of a violent crime.
8. Provide two examples of a property crime.
9. Define White Collar Crime.
10. Define embezzlement.
11. How is embezzlement different from bribery?
12. What is insider trading?
13. What is the RICO statute? What are the four parts of the RICO act?
14. List 8 defenses to criminal liability.
15. Why is the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution important to us?
16. What must law enforcement have in order to obtain a search warrant?
17. Can the government "search and seize" produce in a business for example? Why?
18. Brief United States v. Moon.
19. Describe the Fifth Amendment protections. (due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination).
20. What protections exist under the 6th and 8th Amendments?
21. What is the exclusionary rule?
22. Brief Herring v. United States
23. What are Miranda rights?
24. Refer to exhibit 6-3: Describe the major procedural steps in a criminal case.
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