CHAPTER FOUR

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CHAPTER FOUR

• THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
  MENS REA, CONCURRENCE, CAUSATION

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Levels of Mens Rea

• 4 mental states of intent
• General intent
• Specific intent
• Transferred intent
• Constructive intent
• Levels of culpability
• Intentionally
• Knowingly
• Recklessly
• Negligently

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Mens Rea

• People v. Disimone

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Intentionally

• Specific intent or conscious objective is to
  engage in the crime or cause the result
• State v. Stark

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Knowingly

• Dont have to intend to cause harm
• Your conduct is such that you know you will cause
  harm even it you dont intend to
• State v. Jantzi

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Recklessly and Negligently

• Elements of recklessness
• Aware of substantial and unjustifiable risk
• Disregarding the risk is a gross deviation from
  what a reasonable person would do
• Elements of negligence
• Should know creating a risk, but dont actually
  know
• Creating risk unconsciously
• Koppersmith v. State

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Strict Liability

• No mens rea requirement
• What do you have to prove?
• Why do we have strict liability crimes?
• State v. Loge

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Causation

• Did the criminal conduct cause a particular
  result?
• Factual cause
• Legal cause
• Proximate cause or intervening cause
• Types of intervening causes
• Coincidental intervening acts
• Responsive intervening acts

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Causation

• Commonwealth v. McCloskey

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THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
MENS REA, CONCURRENCE, CAUSATION

• END CHAPTER FOUR