1.Compare and contrast a mistake of law and a mistake of fact.How does the law treat these mistakes differently and why?Provide your own examples of situations involving both and how the law would analyze those situations.

2.What are the four types of mental states (levels of culpability/blame) identified in the Model Penal Code?Be sure to provide examples of each mental state.

3.What are strict liability crimes?Provide an example. What are some arguments for and against such crimes?Do you think that there should or should not be strict liability crimes? Explain your answer.

4. What is mens rea?Why is it important for a crime to have a mens rea element? What crimes have no mens rea element?

5.What does the prosecution have to prove with regard to causation to get a conviction? What are intervening causes and how do they affect a defendant's responsibility? Be sure to provide examples.

6.Isit necessary to prove a criminal motive in each case?

7.Lizzie Bordenmurders her father after much planning so she can have his money.What's Lizzie's intent?What's her motive?

8.Jane intends to kill her boss.Is Jane subject to criminal liability for her intent alone?

9.Bob's family is starving.He goes to the grocery store and steals a turkey.Once he gets outside of the store, he is arrested for larceny.Does his "good motive" get him off?Why or why not?

10.Joey is in the hospital because Tony beat him up pretty badly.While Joey is in the hospital, it burns down and Joey dies as a result.Is there "but for" causation?Is there legal causation?Who caused his death? Should Joey get charged with murder?Why or why not?