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1 results foundAuthor: Garvey, Stephen P. Title: Authority, Freedom, and the Guilty Mind Summary: Imagine an actor who commits a crime in thrall to a powerful desire. Think, for example, about those we call addicts, phobics, maniacs, philiacs, provokees, and so forth. Do any conditions exist under which such actors should be immune to criminal liability when they choose to commit a crime in order to mollify their enthralling desire? Yes. An actor should be immune to criminal liability when, assuming he freely chooses to commit a crime (and thus satisfies the demand that his act be guilty or his actus reus), he nonetheless fails to manifest a guilty mind or mens rea, i.e., his choice to commit the crime reflected no ill will for the state’s authority or its criminal laws. I doubt this condition will obtain very often, but when it does, any actor fulfilling it is beyond the state’s authority to punish. Details: Ithaca, NY: Cornett Law School, 2016. 60p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 22, 2016 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2729414 Year: 2016 Country: United States URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2729414 Shelf Number: 137925 Keywords: GuiltGuilty Mind Mens Rea |