{"id":204,"date":"2012-10-17T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=204"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:21:55","slug":"10-mens-rea-mental-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"10. Mens Rea = Mental State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205\" title=\"MensRea10\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea10.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea10-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e3a8fbcffef2088700204' value='69e3a8fbcffef2088700204'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e3a8fbcffef2088700204' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e3a8fbcffef2088700204' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e3a8fbcffef2088700204' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 6: Mens Rea<br \/>Page 10: Mental State<\/p>\n<p>Five children. Each equally innocent. Each equally dead. Each death clearly caused by the actions of an adult.<\/p>\n<p><em>Four little gravestones, one flat grave marker, next to a little hill with a lone tree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The harm is the same in each case. And yet most people would feel that none of the adults are equally culpable.<\/p>\n<p>The difference is not in the harm done, but in the MENTAL STATE of the person who did it.<\/p>\n<p>This mental state, or &#8220;MENS REA&#8221; in Latin, is the critical factor in criminal law. It is what makes the difference between a serious crime and a minor crime\u2014or even no crime at all.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e3a8fbcffef2088700204' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37,1],"tags":[5,4,16,17],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-culpability","tag-mens-rea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}