Liam and Carl, his college classmate, did not like each other. At the dining hall one evening, Carl approached Liam and without warning punched him in the stomach in front of many other students. As the other students separated them, Carl said to Liam, “I’m not through with you yet. You’d better watch your back.” Liam was enraged by his injury and the public humiliation of the incident. Two days later, as Liam sat in the dining hall, Carl entered and began to taunt him about the earlier incident. Shortly thereafter, a fellow diner accidentally hit Liam on the back of the head with a tray. Liam picked up his knife and punctured the fellow diner’s abdomen, killing him.Liam is on trial for murder of the fellow diner, and the evidence described above was introduced. At the conclusion of the evidence, Liam’s lawyer requested that the jury be given an instruction that they could find Liam guilty of voluntary manslaughter.Should the trial judge so instruct the jury?

In 1820, the Compromise was passed as a way to keep tensions between North and South over slavery manageable, by balancing the number of free and slave states added to the US.

The young Corsican artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte led a coup against the weak and crumbling French Republic to become this, the first step to eventually becoming Dictator

Of all of the technological advances made in the more recent scientific revolution, ongoing since the end of World War Two, the most impactful has to have been the advancement in which has helped travel, interconnectedness in economies, and helped with geopolitics

By the 1950s, the methods of spreading this had gone beyond merely printed materials like books and newspapers, but also to popular music, radio, films, and regular TV programming. 

Please describe 3 ways you will take the knowledge learned from this course into your future career as a healthcare provider?

While the US and USSR never fought a hot war, they regularly fought each other indirectly through other countries, with the US supplying the Afghans with weapons against the Soviets and the Soviets and the Chinese supplying weapons to fight the US in in the 60s and 70s

Prior to World War One, the United States partially pursued a policy of this, despite getting involved in the Spanish-American War and exploiting the Banana Republics in Latin America

Barry is a police officer from Texas visiting California.  While passing through a metal detector to enter an LA dance club, security officials there discovered that he was carrying a loaded gun.  Barry showed the security officials his police badge, but they called the Los Angeles Police Department anyway and Barry was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. The applicable statute provides that “it shall be unlawful for any person to possess a firearm in a public place except for law enforcement officers from this jurisdiction.”  During the court proceedings against him, Barry’s lawyer argued that the law in Texas allows off-duty police officers to carry firearms.  Under questioning from the Judge, Barry’s lawyer responded that the statute is ambiguous and that Barry acted in good faith and should not be held criminally responsible. Assume this jurisdiction follows the Model Penal Code. A court is likely to find Barry:

Able robbed a 7-11 store around 4AM in the morning, drove about a half hour to his residence where he went inside, cooked a bowl of oatmeal and counted his money. After reflecting on his financial situation, Able headed to his ex-wife’s residence to give her $2000 for child support payments that he had missed. On the way there, a police cruiser pulled Able over to the side of the road. As the officer approached the driver’s side of the car, Able rolled down the window and shot and killed the officer. Assume that Able was later arrested. A court in a common law jurisdiction is most likely to find that: