{"id":41797,"date":"2022-03-15T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/discussion-question-mens-rea-and-2-responses\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T12:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:08:34","slug":"discussion-question-mens-rea-and-2-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/discussion-question-mens-rea-and-2-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion question: mens rea and 2 responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mens rea, or the mental state of a crime, must concur with the actus reus to complete the crime. This week in the readings we spent a great deal of time examining the various mental states. <\/p>\n<p>A. Questions about a case: 1. In the context of defining culpability or blameworthiness when crafting a punishment, present a reasoned argument for or against charging someone who has HIV with a crime for infecting another persons with the disease. 2. State v. Stark: You may include discussion of the various mental states and use State v. Stark, 832 P.2d 109 (Wash.App. 1992) Click link to: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leagle.com\/decision\/199248966WnApp423_1445\/STATE%20v.%20STARK\" title=\"stark\"><u>Stark<\/u><\/a>\u00a0which can be found in the textbook. 3. Examples: In your analysis you may bring in additional similar cases (from the last five years), and analysis under the various mental states of whether a crime is or is not proper. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>B. Mens Rea: Why do mental states matter in this modern world? \u00a0If you kill someone, or rape them or bludgeon them in a fight, doesn&#8217;t the end result remain the same? \u00a0Try to find a case or an article that shows how we treat different fact patterns and the mens rea in each according to the blameworthiness of the defendant, if you dare&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mens rea, or the mental state of a crime, must concur with the actus reus to complete the crime. This week in the readings we spent a great deal of time examining the various mental states. A. Questions about a case: 1. In the context of defining culpability or blameworthiness when crafting a punishment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}