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Latest Dominion Doc Dump Shows Big Mens Rea Energy At Fox

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India: Would Lack Of ‘Mens Rea' Constitute Medical Negligence? Supreme Court Says YES - S.S. Rana & Co. Advocates

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To declare any act as a criminal offence, it must consist of two elements - Actus Reus (a guilty act) and Mens Rea (intention or knowledge of wrong-doing).

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Panel Holds that Ohio Aggravated Burglary Statute Does Not Count as Predicate Violent Felony under ACCA. 

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2022), the Sixth Circuit read Borden as requiring a purposeful or knowing mens rea for offenses deemed violent felony predicate offenses. As the Sixth Circuit explained, Patterson “did not consider, as Borden now requires, whether the offense’s force element has a mens rea greater than recklessness.” Butts , 40 F.4th

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Texas man sues 3 women for allegedly aiding his ex-wife obtain abortion medication

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Furthermore, according to Silva, all the defendants knew they were aiding in a murder and had the mens rea (guilty mind) needed to trigger the application of both statutes. Therefore, the court does not have any license to put aside Texas’ abortion laws.

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US Supreme Court rules reckless offenses do not qualify as ‘violent felony’

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Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch, wrote the opinion of the court, concluding that any offense with a mens rea or mental state of recklessness does not qualify as a violent felony under the ACCA. The Supreme Court reversed that judgment and remanded the case.

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Subjective intent of wrongdoing required to convict doctors under Controlled Substances Act

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In arguing a subjective standard is required, the charged doctors and other advocates emphasized longstanding rules about the presumption of mens rea (a guilty state of mind) for criminal offenses. A mens rea requirement, the opinion holds, is essential to separate physicians’ “socially beneficial conduct” from criminal conduct.

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UK: Tom McNeill On Corporate Criminal Liability (Video) - BCL Solicitors LLP

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BCL senior associate Tom McNeill is interviewed discussing the shifting UK corporate criminal liability landscape and applying the regulatory approach to Mens Rea offences.