ADMJ 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Model Penal Code, Actus Reus, Attendant Circumstance

• School: GCC
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADMJ 103
• Professor: potter

Document Summary

Intentional murder (including premeditation and capital murder) Depraved heart murder; intent to inflict grievous bodily injury murder. Mens rea [various, depending on the grade] Conduct killing (i. e. , conduct causing death) Or a lesser degree of homicide mpc intent. Mpc: model penal code retains the requirement of intent in section 210. 1(1)(a) defining murder as. Had the conscious objective to cause death. Or be practically certain his conduct will cause death. Criminal homicide is the unjustified, unexcused killing of a human being. Cl: a fetus is a human being only if born alive. 210. 0: human being is one who has been born and is alive. Defines a human being as one who is alive including an unborn child at every state of gestation from fertilization until birth. A person cannot murder someone who is already dead. There"s no spontaneous respiratory or cardiac function and resuscitation. Year and a day rule attempts would be.