ADMJ 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Depraved-Heart Murder, Proximate And Ultimate Causation, Model Penal Code
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The code treats matters of proximate causation as issues relating instead to the defendant"s culpability. That is, in order to find the defendant is culpable, the social harm actually inflicted must not be too remote or accidental in its occurrence from that which was designed, contemplated or risked. In trying to resolve it the jury will have to think about the issue themselves but attorneys can try to provide an answer that look to proximate causation factors listed above: ex. Kibbe v. henderson, uscoa 2nd, 1976: facts: kibbe and krall met stafford at a bar in ny. At the time they met him he was drunk. Ds offered and the three men left the bar and went to another bar. Ds demanded money and forced stafford to lower his trousers and remove his boots. Stafford was abandoned on the side of an unlit rural highway.
