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Criminal Law and Procedure | Right to Counsel and Trial Rights | ESSAY
Hard
...was charged with armed robbery of a delivery driver. His defense was mistaken identity. Malik subpoenaed Jada, who would testify that she saw another man drop a handgun and delivery bag in an alley two blocks away minut...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. VI, Washington v. Texas, Chambers v. Mississippi, Brady v. Maryland, Smith v. Phillips
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Theft and Property Crimes | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Medium
A defendant honestly but mistakenly believed that a neighbor's lawn mower was the same mower the neighbor had borrowed and refused to return. The defendant quietly took the mower from the neighbor's open garage intending...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Theft and Property Crimes | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Medium
...r states the common-law robbery rule. NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 222.1
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 222.1
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Defenses | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Medium
...charged under the statute. Which statement best describes the hiker's mistake-of-law argument? The best answer applies the ordinary rule that mistake of law is not a defense based on private misunderstanding. NCBE NextGe...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 2.04
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Inchoate Offenses | ESSAY
Hard
...courier to the buyer's apartment and waited outside while the courier completed the sale. Police arrested both as the courier returned to the car. Prosecutors charge the defendant with solicitation, attempt to distribute...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 5.01, Model Penal Code 5.02, Model Penal Code 5.03, Model Penal Code 5.05
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Inchoate Offenses | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Medium
...t describes solicitation? The best answer states when solicitation is complete. NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 5.02
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 5.02
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Inchoate Offenses | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Medium
...he car. Prosecutors charge solicitation, attempt, conspiracy, and the completed arson. Which statement best describes ordinary merger principles? The best answer states the ordinary inchoate-offense merger rules. NCBE Ne...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 5.05
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Homicide | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Hard
...emotional distress caused by facts the defendant honestly but partly mistakenly believed were true. Which statement best describes the possible mitigation? The best answer states the Model Penal Code-style extreme emoti...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 210.3
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Inchoate Offenses | ESSAY
Hard
...it arson. The store owner argues that there was no real agreement, no completed arson, and that he withdrew before any harm occurred. Analyze the solicitation and conspiracy charges under common approaches, including agr...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 5.02, Model Penal Code 5.03
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Theft and Property Crimes | ESSAY
Hard
...dispute and lit the neighbor's curtains on fire. The curtains burned completely, and flames charred part of a wooden window frame before sprinklers extinguished the fire. The apartment was in a building where the neighb...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 220.1, Model Penal Code 221.1
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Defenses | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Medium
...t is most accurate? The best answer recognizes that an honest factual mistake about ownership can negate larceny's specific intent. NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 2.04
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 2.04
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Defenses | ESSAY
Hard
...Analyze Ian's defenses to each charge. This essay tests intoxication, mistake of fact, mistake of law, and the distinction between specific-intent and genera...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 2.04, Model Penal Code 2.08
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Substantive Crimes | ESSAY
Medium
...record includes facts suggesting that practice was unreasonable or incomplete in this setting. The opponent argues that custom ends the analysis. How should the court, tribunal, or decision maker resolve the dispute? Di...
Citations: Common law criminal doctrine, Model Penal Code offense principles, Due process proof-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt doctrine
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Constitutional Procedure | ESSAY
Medium
...record includes facts suggesting that practice was unreasonable or incomplete in this setting. The opponent argues that custom ends the analysis. How should the court, tribunal, or decision maker resolve the dispute? Di...
Citations: Common law criminal doctrine, Model Penal Code principles, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment criminal procedure doctrine
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Homicide | ESSAY
Hard
...mer, and that the later traffic death occurred after the burglary was complete. Analyze the felony-murder charges for each death under common approaches, including qualifying felony, merger, agency and proximate-cause th...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 210.2
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Inchoate Offenses | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Hard
...or tied up a guard, a step that was reasonably foreseeable and helped complete the robbery. The other conspirator waited several blocks away as the driver. Which statement best describes the driver's possible liability f...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Identification and Lineups | ESSAY
Hard
...duce both pretrial identifications and an in-court identification. Ballistics evidence also links Sam's gun to the shooting. Sam moves to suppress the identification evidence. Analyze the hospital showup, the later lineu...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Stovall v. Denno, Neil v. Biggers, Manson v. Brathwaite, United States v. Wade
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Search and Seizure | ESSAY
Hard
...s, plain view, and cell-phone limits. NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. IV, Arizona v. Gant, Cali...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. IV, Arizona v. Gant, California v. Acevedo, United States v. Ross, Riley v. California, South Dakota v. Opperman
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Identification and Lineups | MULTIPLE_CHOICE
Medium
...t rule for compelled voice exemplars. NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. V, United States v. Dionisio, United States v. Wade
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. V, United States v. Dionisio, United States v. Wade
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Criminal Law and Procedure | Confessions and Miranda | ESSAY
Hard
...ter helped prosecutors prove motive. Two hours later, detectives gave complete Miranda warnings, Omar signed a waiver form, and he repeated that he shot the victim over a debt. Omar moves to suppress each statement and t...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. V, Miranda v. Arizona, New York v. Quarles, Pennsylvania v. Muniz, Rhode Island v. Innis