JURIST
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The report also criticized the proliferation of laws that require no specific mental state as contributing to over-criminalization in the country. ” The report further argued that mandating a mens rea requirement in every federal criminal statute would help eliminate over-criminalization and the abuse of prosecutorial discretion.
Above The Law
MARCH 8, 2023
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JURIST
MARCH 6, 2025
The 1970 amendment defined “seditious intention” to include “counsel[ing] disobedience to the law or to any lawful order.” ” The court found that the statutory law has displaced any common law requirement of proving an intention to incite third parties to violence or public disorder.
JURIST
JUNE 12, 2021
One of the three violent felonies the government alleged as a predicate to the ACCA charge was for reckless aggravated assault under Tennessee law. He wrote instead that the phrase is “a centuries-old term of art in the criminal law that distinguishes offenses against the person from offenses against property.”
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Even in the midst of a historic opioid crisis, and an intensely fractured Supreme Court term, the justices found common ground in longstanding presumptions of criminal law and the core principle of physician discretion. The case, Ruan v. The question was whether a doctor’s subjective intent in prescribing matters.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The government, in turn, focuses on the structure of the CSA — the words denoting mens rea, “knowingly or intentionally,” come after the exception clause at issue and so, the government argues, do not apply to it.
JURIST
MAY 30, 2024
Lam would have been forced to dissolve the Legislative Council under Article 50 of the Basic Law and resign under Article 52 of the Basic Law if she refused to address the demand. This is the first time defendants have been acquitted under the China-imposed National Security Law, which was promulgated to safeguard national security.
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