Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by Idaho_Shooter

Where is the Mens Rea in the case of the driver of the station wagon?

People are wrongly jailed and imprisoned all the time. This is why trial court verdicts are not used in legal arguments. They don't set legal precedent. For that, we use the highest appellate decisions for each case only.



The Model Penal Code recognizes four different levels of mens rea: purpose (same as intent), knowledge, recklessness and negligence.



I got banned on another web site for a debate that happened on this site. That's a first