CRM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Epiglottis, Blood Transfusion, Reasonable Doubt
10 Apr 2018
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Causation: generally related to the determination of whether or not the accused actions have actually caused the prohibited act. The (cid:862)thin skull(cid:863) rule taking your victim as you find them (a principle of causation) If you engage in some kind of dangerous conduct against another person, a previous condition that lead to their death can still have the accused be held criminally responsible. Court ruled that murder can be caused without the direct use of force. Section 231(5) of the criminal code: covers instances in which a person can be charged with first-degree murder without planning and pre-mediating, but committing other serious crimes while committing murder. Sections 224 226 of the criminal code intervening causes: when an accused engages in some kind of conduct where a death is caused, somewhere down the line another person was involved in the death.
