Crime Notes
1. Preliminary Crimes: Also called
inchoate crimes, are certain types of
behavior that take place before or in
preparation for committing a crime.
Three of these – attempt, solicitation,
and conspiracy – are crimes in Nevada.
2. Solicitation: Asking, commanding,
urging, or advising that someone else
commit a crime. The actual crime that is
solicited does not need to happen for a
charge and conviction of solicitation.
3. Attempt: The accused must have both
intended to commit a crime and taken
some “substantial step” toward
committing the crime. When someone
performs all of the elements of a crime
but fails to achieve the criminal result,
an attempt has occurred.
4. Conspiracy: An agreement between
two or more persons to commit a crime,
coupled with an intent to commit the
crime and some action or conduct that
furthers the agreement.
Crimes Against the Person
1. Kidnapping: The taking or keeping
of a person against that person’s
will.
2. Assault: An attempt or threat to
carry out a physical attack upon
another person.
3. Battery: Any unlawful physical
contact inflicted by one person
upon another person without
consent. Actual injury is not
necessary. The only requirement is
that the person must have intended
to do bodily harm.