American Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

Lecturer: 李榮耕

September, 2009

• Proportionality
 Kenny v. Louisiana, 128 S.Ct. 2641 (2008).

CH1 The Criminal Act

• The need for an actus reus

 Protor v. State, 176 P. 771 (1918).
• Omissions
 Jones v. United States, 308 F.2d 307 (D.C. Cir. 1962)
• Possession
 United States v. Maldonado, 23 F.3d 4 (1994)
• The requirement of Voluntariness
 People v. Newton, 72 Misc.2d 646 (1973)

 Martin v. State, 17 So. 2d 427 (1944)

 People v. Grant, 46 Ill. App. 3d 125 (1977)

• The Prohibition of "Status" Crimes
 Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962)

 Powell v. Texas, 392 U.S. 514 (1968)

 Johnson v. State, 602 So. 2d 1288 (Fla. 1992)

• Legality
 United States v. Hudson and Goodwin, 11 U.S. 32 (1812)

 State v. Egan, 287 So. 2d 1 (1973)

Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451 (2001)