ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Homicide, Model Penal Code

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-121
• Professor: Tiles

Document Summary

To meet the act requirement of a resulting crime, the prosecution must only show that any act had that particular result, that is, the prosecution must show causation. Result crimes for the purposes of this course: Any crime that contains the word causes or the phrase results in in the definition of the crime. Even in result crimes, causation is usually not an issue debated in court. To establish causation in a criminal case the state must establish two things: That the defendant"s act was the cause in fact of the prohibited result. The defendant"s action caused the harm when the same result would not have occurred in the same way but for the defendant"s action. If the exact same result would have occurred in the exact same way without the input of the defendant, then the defendant did not cause that result. Both the traditional approach and the mpc adhere to this.