CRM 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mens Rea, Frontal Lobe, Actus Reus
10 Jan 2017
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The mental elements in criminal law: subjective liability. Deliberately intended to bring about the concequences: 2. Subjectively realized that their conduct might produce such prohibited consequences and proceed with the act regardless of their actual knowledge of that risk. Def: intention: the excersize of a free will to use particular means to produce a particular result/ you are aware of the particular means. Direct intention: refers to intention of an individual acting with the desire, purpose, aim, objective, or design to achieve a certain consequence ex: intending to rob a bank. She was(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)ed that they (cid:449)e(cid:396)e guilty and it turned out she was in a relationship with the one men that was being convicted. Inention the excersise of a free will to use particular means to produce a particular result. Motive precedes and induces the excersise of free will.
