This document contains a review for a unit test on criminal and civil law. It provides examples of different criminal and civil actions and asks the reader to identify them as such. It also lists statements about jurisprudence, law, and criminal and civil cases and identifies whether each one is true or false. The review covers key differences between criminal and civil cases such as who brings charges, standards of proof, and possible outcomes.

1. Unit 1 Test Review

2. Criminal or civil
• Each statement is an example of a criminal or
civil action.

3. • Tyrone doesn’t pay for his Powerade at Wawa

4. • Ben deliberately hit a pedestrian with his car

5. • Charles find his wife cheating on him and files
for divorce

6. • Carlos loses control of his car on the ice and
hits a pedestrian, badly injuring her

7. • For no apparent reason, the police stopped
Rita while she was driving and began to search
through the trunk and her personal luggage.

8. • Jennie got caught taking expensive video
equipment from her job

9. • Joe has to go to court for not stopping at a stop
sign

10. True or False
• The following statements are either true or
false

11. • Jurisprudence is the study of law and legal
philosophyts

12. • A US representative prohibited a local
newspaper from printing an editorial that was
critical of her voting record.

13. • Only the president is above the law.

14. • Everything that is immoral is also illegal

15. • The penalty for a misdemeanor is a prison term
over one year

16. • The two major groups that laws fall under are
civil and criminal

17. • In a criminal case, charges may only be
brought by plaintiff

18. • Murder and armed robbery are considered
felonies

19. • In a criminal case, the plaintiff may sue the
defendant for damages obtained during a car
accident

20. • If the jury in OJ Simpson’s civil trial is 60%
sure that he is guilty of murder, they can find
him liable

21. • In a criminal case the jury can only find the
defendant guilty if they are beyond a
reasonable doubt that they committed the
crime

22. • A civil action is also known as a lawsuit
brought by one person who feels wronged by
another person

23. • OJ Simpson was found not guilty in both civil
and criminal court for the death of Nicole
Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman