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Attempt, Solicitation, and Conspiracy MCQ

_____ is known as a conspiracy in which a single individual or individuals serve as a hub that is connected to various individuals or spokes.

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Correct Answer: Wheel conspiracy

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_____ is defined as an agreement by two persons to engage in a criminal act that requires the involvement of two persons cannot constitute a conspiracy.

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Correct Answer: Wharton’s rule

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_____ is an individual with the intent to enter into a conspiratorial agreement is guilty regardless of the intent of the other party.

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Correct Answer: Unilateral

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Is substantial step test the Model Penal Code approach to determining attempt. There must be a clear step toward the commission of a crime that is not required to be immediately proximate to the crime itself. The act must be committed under circumstances strongly corroborative of an intent to commit a crime?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a written or spoken statement in which an individual intentionally advises, requests, counsels, commands, hires, encourages, or incites another person to commit a crime with the purpose that the other individual commit the crime.

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Correct Answer: Solicitation

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_____ is defined as acts taken to prepare for committing a crime.

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Correct Answer: Preparation

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_____ is a conspiracy requires an agreement between two or more parties.

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Correct Answer: Plurality requirement

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Is pinkerton doctrine a conspirator is liable for all criminal acts taken in furtherance of the conspiracy?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an act constituting an attempt must be physically proximate to the completion of the crime.

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Correct Answer: Physical proximity test

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_____ is defined as an overt act in furtherance of an agreement is required under most modern conspiracy statutes.

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Correct Answer: Overt act

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_____ is the defense that an individual’s act does not constitute a crime as a matter of law.

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Correct Answer: Legal impossibility

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Is inherent impossibility an act that is incapable of achieving the desired result?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an individual abandons or is prevented from completing an attempt due to an extraneous or intervening factor.

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Correct Answer: Incomplete attempt

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_____ is defined as attempts, conspiracy, and solicitation. Each requires a specific purpose to accomplish a criminal objective and an act in furtherance of the intent. These offenses are punished to the same extent or to a lesser extent than the target crime.

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Correct Answer: Inchoate crimes

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_____ is an individual who is excluded from liability under a criminal statute may not be held legally liable as a conspirator to violate the law.

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Correct Answer: Gebardi rule

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Is factual impossibility a criminal act is prevented from being completed because of an extraneous factor?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a circumstance that is not created by a defendant that prevents the completion of a criminal act.

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Correct Answer: Extraneous factor

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_____ is defined as comprises three elements: (1) an intent or purpose to commit a crime, (2) an act or acts toward the commission of the crime, and (3) a failure to complete the crime.

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Correct Answer: Criminal attempt

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_____ is an agreement to commit a crime. Various state statutes require an overt act in furtherance of this purpose.

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Correct Answer: Conspiracy

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Is complete attempt an individual takes every act required to commit a crime and fails to succeed?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a conspiracy in which individuals are linked in a vertical chain to achieve a criminal objective.

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Correct Answer: Chain conspiracy

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_____ is defined as a conspiratorial agreement requires at least two persons with the intent to enter into the agreement who possess the intent to achieve a common criminal objective.

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Correct Answer: Bilateral

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_____ is an intent or purpose to commit a crime, an act or acts toward the commission of the crime, and a failure to commit the crime.

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Correct Answer: Attempt

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Is abandonment an individual who completely and voluntarily renounces his or her criminal purpose is not liable for an attempt. Abandonment as a result of outside or extraneous factors does not constitute a defense?

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Correct Answer: True

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A factual impossibility is a defense to an attempt to commit a crime.

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Correct Answer: False

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The Model Penal Code states that to constitute an attempt, an act must be a clear step toward the commission of a crime.

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Correct Answer: True

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The subjective approach focuses on the danger to society presented by a defendant who possesses a criminal intent.

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Correct Answer: False

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The subjective approach requires that an act comes extremely close to the commission of a crime.

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Correct Answer: False

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The objective approach requires an act that comes extremely close to the commission of a crime.

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Correct Answer: True

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An imperfect attempt is when an individual abandons or is prevented from completing a crime due to the arrival of the police.

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Correct Answer: False

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An incomplete attempt occurs when an individual takes every act required to commit a crime and yet fails to succeed.

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Correct Answer: False

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The Model Penal Code’s ______ approach states that to constitute an attempt that an act must be a clear step toward the commission of a crime.

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Correct Answer: Substantial step

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Most complex conspiracies can be categorized as either ______.

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Correct Answer: A chain or a wheel conspiracy

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Which of the following punishes attempts?

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Correct Answer: Early common law

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