CRM 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Asthma, Felony Murder Rule, Wiki

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2300
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

Consequences: an element of actus reus: more than one accused. Intervening factors (other events occur from the time of the conduct and the consequences/ the chain of causation is being intervened/ the causing link between the conduct and causing link must be proven by the crown/ : murder. To establish the causal link between the conduct and the consequences (cid:862)(cid:271)ut fo(cid:396)(cid:863) (this is usually what they must ask): crown must prove trotta case (2004) Assaulted and killed his 8 month old son/ the second child that came in was 1 month old and had a femor fracture and died as well. Nette case(2001) the supreme court of canada ruled that: Factual causation: refers to facts of how the victim came about his or her death (important whether they are blamed legally for the conduct) but for. Therefore you would not be convicted because the element of foreseeability was not proven.