Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reasonable Person, Criminal Negligence, Indictable Offence
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Require actus reus and mens rea together: mens rea can"t come after. Deliberate, you know what you"re doing, you"re planning to do it. What is in the accused actual mind. Accused does not actually intend for the result. Willfully blind to the results of their actions/wrongness of actions: purposefully shutting your eyes, because you don"t want to, don"t have the knowledge, because you wouldn"t let yourself have the knowledge know. Still illegal if willfully blind: criminal negligence. Looks at what should"ve been in the accused mind. How unlikely something is to happen, doesn"t effect whether you. Whether you know if something is illegal or not doesn"t matter. How thrilled you are to do something doesn"t matter. Why you do something doesn"t effect your intention to do it. What matters is that you intend to do a certain thing intend for something to happen. Subjective/objective: subjective foresight of risk, objective unreasonable running of risk.
