Criminal Law

Locate a recent criminal Supreme Court decision you find interesting in the LexisNexis library.

Provide a brief summary and properly cite the case.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you answer the following questions:

What interested you about this case?
What are the sources, purposes, and jurisdictions of the criminal law related to this case?
What is the difference between the various elements of crime, including actus reus, mens rea, and concurrence? Describe which element(s) of crime were related to this case.
What is the adversarial system and how was it applied in this case? (For example, what was the argument from the prosecution, and what was the argument from the defense?)
Define inchoate crimes, and describe if there were any inchoate crimes in your chosen case.

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In this paper, I will be considering the case of Class v. the United States. In this particular case, the jury had indicted Class as in his possession were firearms that had been locked away in his jeep that was parked in Washington on the grounds of the United States Capital. Class tried to ask the District Court to dismiss the indictment that had been brought against him and claimed that the due process class under the second amendment had been violated.

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