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In reply to the discussion: Can a DU legal expert explain to me... [View all]former9thward
(33,424 posts)27. I am posting just like you.
I am not getting paid to do so and I am not preparing a legal brief. So no, I am not going to do hours of research to give an opinion on DU and guess what -- no one else is doing that either.
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No. You can't just instruct the jury as to what a reasonable person would have believed.
Ms. Toad
Jul 2023
#9
The mens rea of the crime is ALWAYS subjective - what the accused actually knew.
Ms. Toad
Jul 2023
#18
He lies that is evident. It will be all the evidence of is his lies that will make it easy to prove
boston bean
Jul 2023
#47
Go ahead and up willful ignorance or blindness too; there are other terms for it.
Hortensis
Jul 2023
#33