JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Every clause in the blasphemy law was modified or changed when Zia was leader, and the intent or mens rea requirement was completely removed. The Pakistan Penal Code was revised several times between 1980 and 1986, and five sections were added that address blasphemy and other religious offences.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

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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SquirePattonBoggs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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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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.

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JURIST

MAY 30, 2024

Nonetheless, the court held otherwise in finding that: [T]he use of the word ‘unlawful’ in [Article 22 of the China-imposed National Security Law] was an adjective to qualify the actus reus of the offense rather than the requisite mens rea ” … it was irrelevant to the issue of guilt that the accused acted with a mistaken belief (..)

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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

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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.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The question is whether his intent (mens rea) matters, or can he be convicted based only upon the reasonably perceived threat of the recipient.). Colorado (When does speech rise to a “true threat”, unprotected by the First Amendment. Here, it was a series of unsolicited Facebook direct messages. April 24 – Dupree v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

The ACCA, in Borden’s view, required a higher culpable state of mind, or mens rea , than recklessness. A mens rea of purpose equates to a consciously desirable outcome. Both Kagan’s plurality opinion and Kavanaugh’s dissent seemed to name a future mens rea controversy for the court: extreme recklessness.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday ruled that the US government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a doctor knowingly prescribed opioids “in an unauthorized manner” in order to secure a conviction for the illegal distribution of controlled substances. In the case of Ruan v.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the AKS and its Mens Rea Element. The Court instead interpreted the term, as used in the AKS, to mean an intentional violation of a known legal duty, but concluded that “the mens rea element goes no further.” Pfizer appealed to the Second Circuit, which again ruled against Pfizer.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Writing for the majority, Justice Breyer stated that the Court holds that the statutory language “knowing or intentionally” ( mens rea) applies to the “except as authorized“ clause under section 841, meaning that if the prescriber was otherwise authorized to issue the prescription (e.g., appropriately licensed, etc.)

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

It is imperative that evidence obtained through materially false statements in warrants be rejected regardless of the mens rea of the applicant,” Cook explained. She also suggests requiring higher justification for no-kick entry warrants.

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At the Lectern

MAY 29, 2024

2) Does state law preempt a local ordinance when both prohibit the same conduct and the state law has a mens rea component that the local ordinance does not?

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Several justices asked first, whether, for every element of a crime, the government had to prove mens rea; and second, what precise burden remains on the government once a doctor puts forward lack of criminal intent as a defense.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2021

As she put it: [I]t seems to me that the best argument against your position, and it’s a strong one, comes from Section 5 and Section 19, which have these protections in them that Section 13 does not, that there has to be a repeated violation, that there has to be a certain kind of mens rea and so forth.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Court instead concluded that the term, as used in the AKS, is “more accurately understood as a voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty…the mens rea element goes no further” (internal quotations omitted).

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Other parts of the jury’s verdict in this particular case also “do not reflect all of the factual findings necessary to support a murder conviction under current law.” because the aider and abettor has not sufficiently concerned himself with that murder.”

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At the Lectern

JULY 20, 2023

1437 and Chiu ’s discussion of the natural and probable consequences doctrine, which both concern the mens rea of a crime.” ” The opinion doesn’t specifically mention SB 775. The court affirms the Third District Court of Appeal’s unpublished opinion.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It’s a bedrock principle of criminal law that crimes require an actus reus (the prohibited act) and the requisite mens rea (mental state). It’s another thing entirely to prosecute individuals who were not involved in the misfeasance and were unaware of the alleged violations.

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Patently O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Of these, elements 1 and 4 are mens rea elements rather than conduct elements and so the 11th Circuit found them irrelevant to the venue question. D intended or at least knew that the offense would injure the owner of the trade secret; and. The trade secret is related to interstate or foreign commerce.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 19, 2023

It concluded that a recklessness standard— i.e., a showing that a person “consciously disregard[ed] a substantial [and unjustifiable] risk that [his] conduct will cause harm to another,”—is the appropriate mens rea. That standard, again, is recklessness.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The mens rea element is merely eliminating involuntary failures like illness or force in the failure to perform. The statute itself reads like criminalized negligence. It uses the language of criminal scienter in requiring an intentional act. However, it is intent to “refuse or fail to perform” a duty.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

2) Does state law preempt a local ordinance when both prohibit the same conduct and the state law has a mens rea component that the local ordinance does not? ” The case concerns prosecution of an octogenarian landlord for violating city ordinances that prohibit renting to “any unlicensed Commercial Cannabis Activity.”

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 6, 2025

” The opinion also finds significant the abuse the father had inflicted on the mother.

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LexForti

JANUARY 12, 2022

Whatever the mens-rea may be, the actus-reus was the total elimination of a clan. The mission to commit Uchiha massacre was given by DANZO to Itachi. According to him, it was the only way to maintain the internal peace in the village. It makes Danzo the main conspirator of committing the Genocide. Danzo assigning Itachi the mission.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2023

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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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

While the argument that “principles of equity” includes a willfulness requirement would not “directly contradict the statute’s other, express mens rea provisions or render them wholly superfluous[,].

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JURIST

JANUARY 27, 2023

Hilbach , the court considered whether the five- and four-year mandatory minimums for two men convicted of armed robbery with a firearm were constitutional.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Kari Hong, an immigration lawyer and law professor at the University of Montana, wrote an academic article , titled “A New Mens Rea For Rape,” about rape law and reform in 2017 and followed it up with an article for The Crime Report: “ What Rape Reform Needs: More Convictions, Less Punishment. ” Hong told The Crime Report that she was originally motivated (..)

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

“Corruptly” as a consciousness of wrongdoing has never been the mens rea for bribery. The whole argument was this was a legitimate consulting agreement. I feel like we’re in a Senate room drafting language [of a statute].

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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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LexForti

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Nevertheless, in circumstances of this nature, the legal principle of “mens rea” ought to be looked at in order to facilitate better decision-making on both the side of the defendant and the plaintiff The POCSO Court in Bombay, while adjudicating the “ Satish Ragde vs. the State of Maharashtra (Criminal Appeal no.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

.” The dissenter, however, said, “I agree with the majoritys analysis that the record of conviction conclusively establishes that Godlock acted with the requisite intent to kill (the mens rea). But it does not conclusively establish that Godlock committed the requisite acts (the actus reus).”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

In a forthcoming (May 2022) book, Criminology on Trump, I have marshalled the mens rea type of evidence that I hope prosecutors and the Department of Justice will consider in charging Trump and his associates with a variety of white-collar crimes.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

Even then, it can be difficult since attempted murder requires proof that the defendant “must have taken a substantial step towards that crime, and must also have had the requisite mens rea.” ” Braxton v. United States , 500 U.S. 344 (1991).

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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 (..)

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