AOJ Final Exam Study Guide 2025 Complete Administration of Justice
Comprehensive Revision Notes
Crimes in California are divided into 3 categories - correct answer ✔✔-Felony
-Misdemeanor
-Infraction
The statue for most misdemeanors is: - correct answer ✔✔-One year
-Prosecution for most misdemeanors must be commenced within one year after its commission
Voir dire - correct answer ✔✔-Refers to jury selection
No statute of Limitations - correct answer ✔✔-Prosecution for an offense punishable by death
or life imprisonment or life without the possibility of parole, or for embezzlement of public
money may be commenced at any time
-An example are crimes like murder and treason
Crimes that may be punished as a felony or a misdemeanor is called a: - correct answer ✔✔-
Wobbler
Corpus Delicti means: - correct answer ✔✔-It includes the act or omission and the criminal
human agency
-The total body of the crime
In CA, adolescents under the following age can be charged as an adult: - correct answer ✔✔-14
, 3 forms of criminal intent are: - correct answer ✔✔-Specific
-General
-Transferred
If someone forced another to commit a crime, the person committing the act would have a
defense of: - correct answer ✔✔-Duress
2 kinds of malice recognized by law are: - correct answer ✔✔-Expressed
-Implied
PC 31 states that all persons involved in any way in the planning, preparation, or carrying out of
any crime become *principals*. This is even true if they are not present at the time the crime is
committed. The key elements are: - correct answer ✔✔*1.* Aids and abets in the commission
of a crime
*2.* Advises and encourages its commission (even if not present).
*3.* Fraudulently gets another drunk for the purpose of causing that person to commit a crime
*4.* Compels another to commit a crime by threats, menaces, or coercion
Every person who, after a felony has been committed, harbors, conceals, or aids a principal in
such felony, with the intent that said principal may avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction,
or punishment, having knowledge that said principal has committed such felony or has been
charged with such felony or convicted thereof, is a(n) _________ to such felony - correct answer
✔✔-Accessory
*Conspiracy* may be defined as 2 or more persons agreeing to commit any crime, where at
least one of them does an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. Conspiracy is a felony. -
correct answer ✔✔-It is a specific intent crime
-Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor is a felony
-Mere agreement to commit a crime is not conspiracy
Comprehensive Revision Notes
Crimes in California are divided into 3 categories - correct answer ✔✔-Felony
-Misdemeanor
-Infraction
The statue for most misdemeanors is: - correct answer ✔✔-One year
-Prosecution for most misdemeanors must be commenced within one year after its commission
Voir dire - correct answer ✔✔-Refers to jury selection
No statute of Limitations - correct answer ✔✔-Prosecution for an offense punishable by death
or life imprisonment or life without the possibility of parole, or for embezzlement of public
money may be commenced at any time
-An example are crimes like murder and treason
Crimes that may be punished as a felony or a misdemeanor is called a: - correct answer ✔✔-
Wobbler
Corpus Delicti means: - correct answer ✔✔-It includes the act or omission and the criminal
human agency
-The total body of the crime
In CA, adolescents under the following age can be charged as an adult: - correct answer ✔✔-14
, 3 forms of criminal intent are: - correct answer ✔✔-Specific
-General
-Transferred
If someone forced another to commit a crime, the person committing the act would have a
defense of: - correct answer ✔✔-Duress
2 kinds of malice recognized by law are: - correct answer ✔✔-Expressed
-Implied
PC 31 states that all persons involved in any way in the planning, preparation, or carrying out of
any crime become *principals*. This is even true if they are not present at the time the crime is
committed. The key elements are: - correct answer ✔✔*1.* Aids and abets in the commission
of a crime
*2.* Advises and encourages its commission (even if not present).
*3.* Fraudulently gets another drunk for the purpose of causing that person to commit a crime
*4.* Compels another to commit a crime by threats, menaces, or coercion
Every person who, after a felony has been committed, harbors, conceals, or aids a principal in
such felony, with the intent that said principal may avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction,
or punishment, having knowledge that said principal has committed such felony or has been
charged with such felony or convicted thereof, is a(n) _________ to such felony - correct answer
✔✔-Accessory
*Conspiracy* may be defined as 2 or more persons agreeing to commit any crime, where at
least one of them does an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. Conspiracy is a felony. -
correct answer ✔✔-It is a specific intent crime
-Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor is a felony
-Mere agreement to commit a crime is not conspiracy
