{"id":282,"date":"2012-10-18T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=282"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:31:49","slug":"34-cause-in-fact-and-proximate-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"34. Cause In Fact, and Proximate Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-283\" title=\"ActusReus07\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2010-11-17-ActusReus071.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2010-11-17-ActusReus071.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2010-11-17-ActusReus071-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f2ba69c48682016429207' value='69f2ba69c48682016429207'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f2ba69c48682016429207' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f2ba69c48682016429207' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f2ba69c48682016429207' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 8: What Have You Done?<br \/>Page 7: Cause In Fact and Proximate Cause<\/p>\n<p>No matter how convoluted the facts may be, all you&#8217;re looking for is whether the harm would have happened\u00a0<strong>anyway,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and how\u00a0<strong>closely related<\/strong> the act is to the harm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joe explaining<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Or CAUSE IN FACT and PROXIMATE CAUSE, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>If Simon wouldn&#8217;t have been hurt &#8220;but for&#8221; Joe&#8217;s making faces at the pigeon, then Joe&#8217;s act was a\u00a0<strong>CAUSE IN FACT<\/strong> of the harm.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0<strong>PROXIMATE CAUSE<\/strong> has to do with how likely it was that the act would have caused that harm\u2014how predictable it was.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joe explaining<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That one is more of a gut feeling than a logical analysis.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f2ba69c48682016429207' 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":[20,21,22,5,4,16,18,23],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized","tag-actus-reus","tag-causation","tag-cause-in-fact","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-culpability","tag-liability","tag-proximate-cause"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}