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- Model Penal Code
The Model Penal Code (MPC) is one of the most important developments in American law, and perhaps the most important influence on Ame...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Mc–Pl
- Starting over with a clean slate: in praise of a forgotten section of the Model Penal Code.
There has been surprisingly little recognition of the fact that our system of penal law is largely flawed in one of its most basic aspects: it fails t...
- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Vol. 30 Nbr. 5, July 2003
- Insanity Defense
..., and the American Law Institute in its Model Penal Code definition of insanity adopted a modifi...
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
- Criminal Law

- Dixon v. United States, 548 U. S. (2006)
... a similar reason, no weight is due the 1962 Model Penal Code. There is no evidence that Congress end...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- When is strict criminal liability just?
Many strict liability laws are inconsistent with the idea of guilt-based retribution. The Model Penal Code exclusion of strict liability from criminal punishment is correct as a matter of principle, but does not mean a formal requirement that guilt apply to every material element of an offense. Strict liability advocates call for such principles both in criminalization and in grading, and a more holistic examination of the criminal's actions would be better.
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Vol. 87 Nbr. 4, June 1997
- Criminal Law: The Basics
The singular aspect of this text that makes it so attractive is how the author first describes the foundation and intent behind criminal law and then succinctly outlines the general principles of construction for various crimes. Because of the use of common law and the Model Penal Code, the theory applies to any state and can be combined with a particular state's criminal code or body of case law to show various contrasts.
- FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Vol. 75 Nbr. 8, August 2006
- US v. Peterson, (4th Cir. 2011)
... how the offense is defined "in the criminal codes of most states." Taylor, 495 U.S. at 598. . The Ta... "modern" definition of burglary from the Model Penal Code and a modern criminal law textbook, whi...
- Federal Circuits
- Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc., 537 U.S. 393 (2003)
...Both of the sources Congress used as models in formulating the Hobbs Act-the New York Penal Coode and the Field Code, a 19th-century model penal code-defined extortion...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- US v. Torrell Vann, (4th Cir. 2011)
...2009) (alteration in original) (quoting Va. Code Ann. . § 18.2-63). In Thornton, the government ma... of sexual assault contained within the Model Penal Code is not, as the dissent supposes, a stan...
- Federal Circuits
- US v. Torrell Vann, (4th Cir. 2011)
...2009) (alteration in original) (quoting Va. Code Ann. . § 18.2-63). In Thornton, the government ma... of sexual assault contained within the Model Penal Code is not, as the dissent supposes, a stan...
- Federal Circuits