Penal Code Flashcards
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What are the requirements of culpability?
intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, criminal negligence
it is an affirmative defense to prosecution that, at the time of the conduct charged, the actor, as a result of severe mental disease of defect, did not know that his conduct was wrong.
Insanity
A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly offers, confers, or agrees to confer on another, or solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept from another:
(1) any benefit as consideration for the recipient’s decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or other exercise of discretion as a public servant, party official, or voter;
(2) any benefit as consideration for the recipient’s decision, vote, recommendation, or other exercise of official discretion in a judicial or administrative proceeding;
(3) any benefit as consideration for a violation of a duty imposed by law on a public servant or party official
Bribery
A person commits an offense if by means of coercion he:(1) influences or attempts to influence a public servant in a specific exercise of his official power or a specific performance of his official duty or influences or attempts to influence a public servant to violate the public servant’s known legal duty; or
(2) influences or attempts to influence a voter not to vote or to vote in a particular manner.
Coercion of Public Servant or Voter
A person commits an offense if he privately addresses a representation, entreaty, argument, or other communication to any public servant who exercises or will exercise official discretion in an adjudicatory proceeding with an intent to influence the outcome of the proceeding on the basis of considerations other than those authorized by law.
Improper Influence
A person commits an offense if, with intent to influence the witness, he offers, confers, or agrees to confer any benefit on a witness or prospective witness in an official proceeding, or he coerces a witness or a prospective witness in an official proceeding:
(1) to testify falsely;
(2) to withhold any testimony, information, document, or thing;
(3) to elude legal process summoning him to testify or supply evidence;
(4) to absent himself from an official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned; or
(5) to abstain from, discontinue, or delay the prosecution of another.
Tampering With a Witness
A witness or prospective witness in an official proceeding commits an offense if he knowingly solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit on the representation or understanding that he will do any of the things specified:
(1) to testify falsely;
(2) to withhold any testimony, information, document, or thing;
(3) to elude legal process summoning him to testify or supply evidence;
(4) to absent himself from an official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned; or
(5) to abstain from, discontinue, or delay the prosecution of another
Tampering With a Witness
A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by an unlawful act:(1) in retaliation for or on account of the service or status of another as a:(A) public servant, witness, prospective witness, or informant; or(B) person who has reported or who the actor knows intends to report the occurrence of a crime; or(2) to prevent or delay the service of another as a:(A) public servant, witness, prospective witness, or informant; or(B) person who has reported or who the actor knows intends to report the occurrence of a crime.
Obstruction or Retaliation
A public servant commits an offense if the public servant solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept an honorarium in consideration for services that the public servant would not have been requested to provide but for the public servant’s official position or duties.
Acceptance of Honorarium
A public servant in an agency performing regulatory functions or conducting inspections or investigations commits an offense if he solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit from a person the public servant knows to be subject to regulation, inspection, or investigation by the public servant or his agency.
Gift to Public Servant by Person Subject to His Jurisdiction
A public servant in an agency having custody of prisoners commits an offense if he solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit from a person the public servant knows to be in his custody or the custody of his agency.
Gift to Public Servant by Person Subject to His Jurisdiction
A public servant in an agency carrying on civil or criminal litigation on behalf of government commits an offense if he solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit from a person against whom the public servant knows litigation is pending or contemplated by the public servant or his agency.
Gift to Public Servant by Person Subject to His Jurisdiction
A public servant who exercises discretion in connection with contracts, purchases, payments, claims, or other pecuniary transactions of government commits an offense if he solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit from a person the public servant knows is interested in or likely to become interested in any contract, purchase, payment, claim, or transaction involving the exercise of his discretion.
Gift to Public Servant by Person Subject to His Jurisdiction
A public servant who has judicial or administrative authority, who is employed by or in a tribunal having judicial or administrative authority, or who participates in the enforcement of the tribunal’s decision, commits an offense if he solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit from a person the public servant knows is interested in or likely to become interested in any matter before the public servant or tribunal.
Gift to Public Servant by Person Subject to His Jurisdiction
A member of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, or a person employed by a member of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, or an agency of the legislature commits an offense if he solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit from any person.
Gift to Public Servant by Person Subject to His Jurisdiction
A public servant who is a hearing examiner employed by an agency performing regulatory functions and who conducts hearings in contested cases commits an offense if the public servant solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit from any person who is appearing before the agency in a contested case, who is doing business with the agency, or who the public servant knows is interested in any matter before the public servant.
Gift to Public Servant by Person Subject to His Jurisdiction
A person commits an offense if he offers, confers, or agrees to confer any benefit on a public servant that he knows the public servant is prohibited by law from accepting.
Offering Gift to Public Servant
A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive and with knowledge of the statement’s meaning:(1) he makes a false statement under oath or swears to the truth of a false statement previously made and the statement is required or authorized by law to be made under oath; or(2) he makes a false unsworn declaration under Chapter 132, Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
Perjury
A person commits an offense if he commits perjury as defined in Section 37.02, and the false statement:(1) is made during or in connection with an official proceeding; and(2) is material.
Aggravated Perjury
A statement is material, regardless of the admissibility of the statement under the rules of evidence, if it could have affected the course or outcome of the official proceeding.
Materiality
A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive, he knowingly makes a false statement that is material to a criminal investigation and makes the statement to:(1) a peace officer or federal special investigator conducting the investigation; or(2) any employee of a law enforcement agency that is authorized by the agency to conduct the investigation and that the actor knows is conducting the investigation.
False Report to Peace Officer, Federal Special Investigator, or Law Enforcement Employee
A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive, the person knowingly:(1) files a false report of a missing child or missing person with a law enforcement officer or agency; or(2) makes a false statement to a law enforcement officer or other employee of a law enforcement agency relating to a missing child or missing person.
False Report Regarding Missing Child or Missing Person
A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official proceeding is pending or in progress, he:(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the investigation or official proceeding; or(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the investigation or official proceeding.
Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence
A person commits an offense if he:
(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a governmental record;
(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine governmental record;(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;
(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank governmental record form with intent that it be used unlawfully;
(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its falsity; or
(6) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank governmental record form with knowledge that it was obtained unlawfully.
Tampering With a Governmental Record