The Crime Report
MAY 19, 2021
As President Joe Biden continues to undo almost every policy approved by former president Trump, his recent decision to end Executive Order 13980, which required agencies that issue regulations with criminal penalties to “be explicit about what conduct is subject to criminal penalties and the ‘mens rea’ standard applicable to those offenses,” has raised (..)
JURIST
APRIL 29, 2021
.” It identifies numerous historical issues that stem from the intersection of criminal prosecutions and civil rights cases and pinpoints the legal standard for wilful intent as “confusing and onerous” in these cases.
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The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The article suggests that it is now time to critically examine whether sex crimes should be treated differently than other violent assaults and calls for a further examination of the impact the treatment of sex crime actually has on the legal system.
JURIST
JUNE 12, 2021
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.
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
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.
LexForti
OCTOBER 14, 2021
It also highlighted that mens rea, a condition precedent to constitute the offence of defamation, had been absent in order to prove the intention or knowledge on part of accused to harm the reputation of complainant.
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