BLAW 3175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Due Process, Actus Reus, Manslaughter
Business Law 3175 Section 002
Professor DeAngelis
Lecture #23
- Criminal Law Basic Principles
- Criminal Law
- No Plaintiffs
- The government prosecutes crimes parties are the prosecution or the state
or the people against the defendant
- They are not parties
- The criminal violated the statute
- Due process is necessary
- Procedural process is different
- Scales tipped against the government
- The government has a higher burden of proof
- Evidence can’t convict someone criminally
- Constitutional guarantees
- Criminal sentences based on magnitude of wrong (guilty)
- Civil Law
- People file lawsuits
- Plaintiff vs defendant
- Common Law Wrongs
