{"id":210,"date":"2012-10-17T23:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=210"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:22:29","slug":"12-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"12. Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-211\" title=\"MensRea12\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea12.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea12-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f28f3babf757048394182' value='69f28f3babf757048394182'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f28f3babf757048394182' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f28f3babf757048394182' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f28f3babf757048394182' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 6: Mens Rea<br \/>Page 12: Accident<\/p>\n<p>So what ARE these different mental states? What are we looking for when we decide one person deserves more punishment than another?<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack and Jill<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remember Jack and Jill?<\/p>\n<p>Jack killed his daughter by ACCIDENT.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was a little odd to feed her artichoke, but nobody could have imagined that it would\u00a0<strong>kill<\/strong> her.<\/p>\n<p>Of all these child killers, Jack is the LEAST culpable\u2014not deserving\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">ANY<\/span> punishment.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f28f3babf757048394182' 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-210","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\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}