The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 6: Mens Rea
Page 8: Situations
Silhouetted man looking out a walkup apartment, cityscape in background.
And this is Romeo. Depressed over the loss of his job, he plans to commit suicide by running a gas generator in his apartment. He knows the fumes will probably asphyxiate his upstairs neighbor, whoever that is, but he just doesn’t care.
Crib in mephitic fog
As it happens, Romeo survives. But his upstairs neighbor’s daughter Juliet dies of carbon monoxide poisoning in her crib.
The real question is, where was Juliet’s caregiver? Did that person get poisoned but survive, like Romeo? Was Juliet neglected??