{"id":213,"date":"2012-10-17T23:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=213"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:22:52","slug":"13-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"13. Negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-215\" title=\"MensRea13\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea131.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea131.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea131-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f481066039b6083707337' value='69f481066039b6083707337'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f481066039b6083707337' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f481066039b6083707337' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f481066039b6083707337' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 6: Mens Rea<br \/>Page 13: Negligence<\/p>\n<p>(There are some rare offenses where even accidents are punished, but we&#8217;ll get to that later.)<\/p>\n<p>What about Jan and Dean?<\/p>\n<p><em>Jan and Dean<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, Jan didn&#8217;t expect that giving her baby adult-strength cough medicine would be fatal. But you&#8217;d have expected her to be more careful. Jan was NEGLIGENT.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, negligence is the least culpable mens rea that can be punished\u2014here perhaps as a &#8220;negligent homicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Though one might say she&#8217;s suffered enough already.)<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f481066039b6083707337' 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-213","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\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}