Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're introducing a new series of podcast episodes called "Listen and Learn," where we're going to review substantive areas of the law and apply some of that law to facts. In this episode, we're talking about homicide.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Developing effective attack plans for an essay
• Common law homicide
• The four elements of malice aforethought
• Heat of passion and imperfect self-defense
• Analyzing two criminal law questions, from the February 2007 and February 2008 California bar exams
• Classifying a homicide as first-degree murder, second-degree murder, or manslaughter
• Arguing both sides of the facts and looking for holes in the fact pattern

Resources:

• Brainy Bar Bank – UBE (MEE + MPT) (https://barexamtoolbox.com/brainy-bar-bank-ube-mee-mpt)
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2007 (https://juraxbar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/February-2007-CBX.pdf)
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2008 (https://www.calweasel.com/sites/default/files/February2008EssaysandSampleAnswers.pdf)
• Podcast Episode 67: Developing Attack Plans for the Bar Exam (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-67-developing-attack-plans-for-the-bar-exam/)
• Approaching Criminal Law Questions on the MBE (https://barexamtoolbox.com/approaching-criminal-law-questions-on-the-mbe/)
• What Are Bar Exam Graders Really Looking For? (https://barexamtoolbox.com/what-are-bar-exam-graders-really-looking-for/)

Download the Transcript
(https://barexamtoolbox.com/episode-87-listen-and-learn-homicide/)

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Thanks for listening!

Alison & Lee