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CODE AND NAME OF COURSE: LA11A (LAW1110) - CRIMINAL LAW I
DATE AND TIME:
DURATION: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: This paper has 3 pages and 6 questions.
Answer
THREE
(3) questions.
Answers may be confined to the law of any jurisdiction in the
Commonwealth Caribbean unless the context indicates otherwise.
1.
Answer
EITHER
(a) OR (b)
(a)
"I think it is clear that the criminal law as we know it is based upon moral principle. In a
number of crimes its function is simply to enforce a moral principle and nothing else."
Discuss.
(
b
)
"The criminalization of the smoking of marijuana is another example of the law's
insistence on enforcing morality, rather` than controlling behaviour that is harmful to the
society."
Discuss.
2.
Abbott is a gangland boss. He is in hospital under high security. Bogus wishes his death because
he wants to take over Abbot's operations. Bogus approaches Connolly who is a computer hacker.
Connolly had previously hacked into his high school computer system and given himself a pass
in his final year subjects. Bogus threatens to tell the high school if Connolly does not hack into the
hospital system and stop Abbot's medication. He also threatens to kill Connolly's girlfriend.
Connolly does as he is told and changes the instructions on the computer for administering
Abbott's medication.
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