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Criminal Law Definitions T-Z
Thayer-Wigmore rebuttable presumption of law: Shifting the burden or production from the State to the Defendant as to a few rebuttably presumed elements and all affirmative defenses.
Theft: Obtaining unauthorized control of property with intent to deprive.
Transaction: One criminal episode.
Transferred intent: Kill B with no intent to kill B, but with intent to kill A.
Trespass: Wrongfulness.
Unemancipated: Individual who has not yet reached the age of 18.
Unit of offense or criminality: One criminal act or one criminal count in a charging document.
Unnatural or perverted practices: Non-consensual fellatio, cunnilingus, anilingus, or anal intercourse.
Uttering: Passing or attempting to pass a known forged instrument.
Venue: County where a crime occurred and where the case should be tried.
Viable fetus: Fetus capable of living outside its mother’s womb.
Vicarious liability: Liable for the act of another person based solely on the relationship to that person.
Wilful blindness: Deliberate indifference.
Winship: The due process requirement of placing the burden of production and the burden of persuasion on the prosecution beyond a reasonable doubt.
