CCJ 3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ex Post Facto Law, Criminal Negligence, Wrongful Death Claim
16 Oct 2016
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Chapter 4: criminal law: substance and procedure. Definition: rules that define crime, set punishments, and mandate the procedures for carrying out the criminal justice process, substantive criminal law. Definition: specific rules, and statues, procedural criminal law. Definition: the methods that must be followed in obtaining warrants, investigating, lawful arrests, trial, introducing evidence, sentencing, and reviewing cases, how you can apply the rules/statues; how you participate in the cj system, civil law. Torts: the law of personal injury; wrongful death, accident, accidental fall, public law. Definition: governs the administration and regulation of city, county, state, and federal agencies, development of criminal law. Pages 133-136: common law, norman conquest, 1066. Any criminal law that conflicts with various provisions and articles of constitution must reflect a compelling need to protect public safety or morals. Ex post facto law: a law that makes an act criminal after it was committed or retroactively increases the penalty for a crime; forbidden by u. s.
