150 words agree or disagree to each questions Q1. For many people their first experience with a court hearing is from watching a fictional crime television show or movie. Often in the movies we will hear many Latin terms such as modes operandi, quid pro quo, mens rea, and actus rea. These terms have become synonymous with the legal and crime dramas shown on television, but they actually have real meanings in court proceedings. A crime is broken into three elements or parts, the three are the criminal act, the criminal intent, and the concurrence of the two. Mens rea is the term used for the criminal intent of a crime and Actus rea is the term used for the criminal act of a crime. In criminal proceedings the prosecutor must prove mens rea to be successful. The criminal act or actus rea is the "unlawful bodily movement" which is performed voluntarily (Storm, 2012). Mens rea is the criminal intent of a crime and is the basis for punishment when prosecuting crimes, as the worse crime will have the most servere punishments associates with them. Mens rea is ranked in three categories the first being malice aforethought or the intent to kill, the second being specific intent which is the cause a specific action, and lastly general intent which is the intent to commit a crime. Though mens rea and actus rea are both tied directly to a crime they do have specific differences. If we look a situation of one student stealing another students jacket from their locker in school the criminal act, actus rea, is the taking of someone else's property while the criminal intent, mens rea, would be with the intent to permanently deprive the other student of their property. Motive is not an element of a criminal case,e however it does play a ole in criminal cases. Motive is commonly referred to as the reason person committed an act. Motive is the reason a person committed the criminal act and can be used to determine sentencing for example if a John is at a local bar and punches another man for dancing with his girlfriend, John's motive was anger or jealously, while his intent was to cause bodily harm resulting in the criminal act of battery. As a result of this example John may be subject to a harsher punishment then if in the same scenario the John missed his punch and the other man struck John in self defense. Proving mens rea vice motive is beneficial to the criminal justice system because in order to prove motive you must be able to successful explain what a person is feeling and thinking at the time of a crime and that would prove extremely difficult where proving mens rea can easily by explained by showing a person committed criminal intent by either acting recklessly or by engaging in an action that they knowingly or can be knowingly assumed by a reasonable person to cause harm. Q2. For a defendant to be convicted of a particular crime, there are things that are needed, and one of them is a specific state of mind. This state of mind re.