\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. 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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.38896 cm} x{2.58804 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Party Liability}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} principal & person who actually commits the actus reus of the crime \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Accomplice & person who aids or abets the principal prior to or during the crime; must intend to help principal; mere knowledge is insufficient \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 7) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Accomplice Liability for Other Crimes & accomplice is liable for any crimes that are the natural and probable consequence of the accomplice's conduct \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 6) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Withdrawal & to legally withdraw, an accomplice must repudiate prior act, do all that is possible to countermand prior assistance, and do so before the Chaim of motion is unstoppable \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 9) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Accessory after the fact & person who aids a felon to avoid apprehension after the felony is committed; must know felony was committed \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 6) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.64241 cm} x{3.33459 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Responsibility- Insanity}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} M'Naughten & The defendant is not guilty if, because of a mental disease or defect, the defendant did not know either (i) the nature and quality of the act, or (ii) the wrongfulness of the act. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 7) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Irresistible Impulse & The defendant is not guilty if a mental disease or defect prevented him from being able to conform his conduct to the law. \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Durham Rule & The defendant is not guilty if the crime would not have been committed but for the mental disease or defect. \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Model Penal Code & The defendant is not guilty if a mental disease or defect either prevents the defendant from knowing the wrongfulness of the conduct or prevents the defendant from being able to conform his conduct to the law \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 8) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.84149 cm} x{3.13551 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Responsibility- Intoxication}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Voluntary & is a defense to specific intent crimes if the intoxication prevents the formation of the required intent; not a defense to crimes involving malice, recklessness, or negligence, or for strict-liability crimes \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 9) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Involuntary Dissolution & defense to both general and specific intent crimes, as well as malice crimes when the intoxication serves to negate an element of the crime \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 6) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.34379 cm} x{3.63321 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Responsibility- Mistake of Fact}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} General Intent & Only reasonable mistake may be used as a defense \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Specific Intent & Any mistake of fact is a potential defense; even unreasonable mistakes \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.33919 cm} x{2.63781 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Homicide}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Killing a person & a living person must die \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Causation & Actual and Proximate Cause (Intervening or Superseding causes) \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Common Law Murder & the unlawful killing of a human being committed with malice aforethought \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Malice aforethought & intent to kill, intent to inflict serious bodily harm, reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life, intent to commit a felony \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 7) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Felony Murder & a defendant can be found guilty for the unintended but foreseeable killing that is proximately caused by or during the commission or attempted commission of an inherently dangerous felony; BARRK \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 10) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Defenses to Felony Murder & death was unforeseeable; point of safety \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Death of a bystander (majority rule) & defendant will not be liable for the death of a bystander caused by a police officer or as a result of resistance by the victim of the felony because neither person is the felon's agent. KEY=agency \tn % Row Count 38 (+ 10) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.33919 cm} x{2.63781 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Homicide (cont)}} \tn % Row 7 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Death of a co-felon & defendant will not be liable for the death of a co-felon if a victim or police officer kills the co-felon \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{white} First Degree Murder & Premeditated and deliberate \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Premeditated & defendant had enough time to plan and reflect on the idea of the killing \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 4) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{white} Deliberate & made the decision to kill in a cool and dispassionate manner \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Second Degree Murder & Homicide with necessary malicious intent (to kill, to do great bodily injury, or depraved heart) \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 5) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} Voluntary Manslaughter & murder committed in response to adequate provocation (heat of passion) \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 4) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Provocation & Objective: reasonable person would have been provoked (words not enough). Subjective: defendant actually provoked \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 6) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{white} Time to cool off & Objective: There must not have been sufficient time for an ordinary (reasonable) person to cool off; Subjective: The defendant also must not have actually cooled off. \tn % Row Count 37 (+ 8) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.33919 cm} x{2.63781 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Homicide (cont)}} \tn % Row 15 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Involuntary Manslaughter & an unintentional homicide committed with criminal negligence or during an unlawful act \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{white} Criminal Negligence & Grossly negligent action that puts another person at a significant risk of serious bodily injury or death. MPC also requires awareness \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 7) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Unlawful Act & unlawful act that does not rise to felony murder and a death occurs as a result \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.54287 cm} x{3.43413 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Other Crimes Against the Person}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Criminal Battery & The intentional unlawful application of force to another person that causes bodily harm to that person, or constitutes an offensive touching \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 6) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Criminal Assault & An attempt to commit a battery, or intentionally placing another in apprehension of imminent bodily harm \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Kidnapping & The unlawful confinement of a person against that person's will coupled with either movement or concealment of that person \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} False \seqsplit{Imprisonment} & The unlawful confinement of a person without consent. Other person must be aware of confinement or must be harmed \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 5) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Rape & Unlawful sexual intercourse with a person against his/her will by force or threat of immediate force. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.34379 cm} x{3.63321 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Crimes Against Property}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Larceny & The trespassory taking and carrying away of the personal property of another, without consent, with the specific intent to permanently deprive the owner of the property at the time of the taking \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 7) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Embezzlement} & The fraudulent conversion of the property of another by a person who is in lawful possession of the property \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} False Pretenses & defendant obtains title to the property of another person through reliance of that person on a false representation of material fact made by the defendant with the intent to defraud. Representation must be false and material \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 8) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Robbery & A larceny by force or intimidation when the taking of property is from the victim or in his presence \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Burglary & he breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at nighttime with the specific intent to commit a felony therein \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.33919 cm} x{2.63781 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Inchoate Crimes}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Conspiracy & An agreement between two or more people to accomplish an unlawful purpose with specific intent to agree and commit the criminal object + an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. NO merger \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 10) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Liability for Co-conspirator crimes & conspirator is liable for the conspiracy and all the crimes of a co-conspirator committed in furtherance of the conspiracy \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 6) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Withdrawal (majority rule)} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Attempt & requires a substantial step toward the commission of a crime coupled with the specific intent to commit the crime. Mere preparation is not enough. MERGES \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 8) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Abandonment & once the defendant has taken a substantial step toward the commission of the offense, the defendant may not legally abandon the attempt to commit the crime \tn % Row Count 33 (+ 8) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.33919 cm} x{2.63781 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Inchoate Crimes (cont)}} \tn % Row 5 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Solicitation & Individual invites, requests, or commands another person to commit a crime. MERGES \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.74195 cm} x{3.23505 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Defenses}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Self-Defense & the use of reasonable force to protect oneself at a reasonable time; Deadly force may only be used to protect against the use of deadly force \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 6) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Imperfect Self-Defense & Too much force for the circumstances may mitigate a murder charge down to voluntary manslaughter \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Duress & third party's unlawful threat causes a defendant to reasonably believe that the only way to avoid death or serious bodily injury to himself or another is to violate the law, and that causes the defendant to do so \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 9) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Duress and Homicide & duress is not a defense to intentional homicide, but it is available for criminally negligent homicide \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}