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5.768 documents for intervening cause criminal law

- Causing, aiding, and the superfluity of accomplice liability.
...Accomplices Cannot Cause the Results Brought About by the Actions of Their ... Because Those Latter Actions Are Intervening Causes C. Accomplices Cause the Harms They Aid but... accomplice liability in Anglo-American criminal law. One is the puzzle about the mental states req...
- University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- Vol. 156 Nbr. 2, December 2007
- Henderson v. Kibbe, 431 U.S. 145 (1977)
... of death to another person, and thereby causes the death of another person." Although the element... truckdriver's conduct constituted an intervening cause that relieved the defendants of criminal res...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- State v. Dukes, (Ohio 2011)
CRIMINAL - Murder; R.C. 2903.02(B) and 2929.02; Aggravated Burglary; R.C. 2911.11(A)(1) and (B); Aggravated Robbery; R.C. 2911.01(A)(3); intent; sufficiency of the evidence; intervening causes; independent, intervening cause of death; gross medical negligence; self-inflicted harm; causation; removal of life support/ventilator; expert assistance; particular need; informed consent; competency; jury instructions.
- Ohio Supreme Court

- Fourth Amendment: Search And Seizure
... rather than only those alleged to be criminal in nature "contrary to the genius of the law of En... it was not issued on a showing of probable cause and no record was required to be made of what had ... the confession is the result of "an intervening . . . act of free will." Wong Sun v. United States...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Sykes v. United States, 564 U.S. (2011)
... underan Indiana statute that makes it a criminal offense whenever the driver of a vehicle kno... person operates a vehicle in a manner that causes serious bodily injury toanother person; and. (3) C... and terminate the incident, the intervening pursuit creates high risks of crashes.It presents ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The BP Spill and the Meaning of 'Gross Negligence or Willful Misconduct
- Louisiana Law Review
- Nbr. 71-3, April 2011
- A critical appraisal of the Department of Justice's new approach to medical marijuana.
... of the medical marijuana issue in both criminal law and federalism circles, this Article sets out ...Unlike the CSA, it also creates a civil cause of action against racketeers and authorizes enforc...) cause: (1) the existence of other, intervening causes for the plaintiffs injury; (2) difficulty i...
- Stanford Law & Policy Review
- Vol. 22 Nbr. 2, March 2011
- Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York, 559 U. S. (2010)
... offense “not only was a ‘but for’ cause of his injury, but was the proximate cause as well... Section 1962, in turn, contains RICO’s criminal provisions. Specifically, §1962(c), which the Cit..., the majority seems to argue that the intervening voluntary acts of third parties, namely, the custo...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- From colorblindness to antibalkanization: an emerging ground of decision in race equality cases.
... race-based and race-salient policies have caused. (7) . Describing disagreement in the race discrim... of race in the apprehension of criminal suspects. . Part 1 of the Article derives the anti... racial classification of applicants-intervening in a form that in Justice Kennedy's judgment is es...
- Yale Law Journal
- Vol. 120 Nbr. 6, April 2011
- Wilcox v. Homestake Mining Company, (10th Cir. 2010)
... must demonstrate the defendant's actions caused the plaintiff's injury. Since 1892, New Mexico has... sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause, produced the result complained of, and with...2002) (noting in the criminal law context that "it is difficult to comprehend ho...
- Federal Circuits