Court Legal Mens Rea 
JURIST
MARCH 6, 2025
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal unanimously upheld Thursday the convictions of the opposition activist Tam Tak Chi of uttering seditious words under now-repealed section 10(1)(b) of the Crimes Ordinance. Another question before the court is whether the sedition offense was an indictable offense that must be tried by a judge and jury.
JURIST
JUNE 12, 2021
The US Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that “reckless” crimes qualify as violent felonies for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). The Supreme Court reversed that judgment and remanded the case.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Every clause in the blasphemy law was modified or changed when Zia was leader, and the intent or mens rea requirement was completely removed.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Share In the midst of a national opioid crisis that claimed more than 100,000 lives in this country over the past year, the Supreme Court will hear a case on Tuesday about the relevance of doctors’ subjective intentions in criminal prosecutions for unlawful distribution of controlled substances. While on the surface, the case, Ruan v.
JURIST
AUGUST 31, 2024
” Furthermore, Kwok also ruled that the prosecution could establish the defendant’s mens rea by proving that the defendant, aware of the seditious intent within a publication, disregarded the consequence of publishing it. The trial began in October 2022, with an initial ruling expected in October 2023.
FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
Now, after an unfavorable HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) advisory opinion and two defeats in court, Pfizer has appealed the Second Circuit’s decision to the Supreme Court. The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the AKS and its Mens Rea Element.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 6, 2022
“When police rammed the door of Breonna Taylor’s home and shot her six times in a hail of thirty-two bullets, they lacked legal justification for being there,” Blanche Cook, the paper’s author, details. All of this can be traced back to the Supreme Court’s legal doctrine that created the conditions for this botched search warrant execution.
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