CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter SMITH and POPE: Actus Reus, Jury Instructions, Theory Of Justification
19 Jun 2017
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His defense, in his own words, was: look, how can i be done in for smashing my own property. I put the flooring and that in, so if i want to pull it down it"s a matter for me. Underlying facts, the actual crime that took place. Melissa norris, young mother with a three-month-old infant, was suffering from a serious mental illness and given to episodes of violent religious frenzy. Defendant took norris and her child into her house one friday night after church services because they had no other place to go: fed them both and looked after the child in a variety of ways. At some point in the evening the infant died from the beating. Misprision of felony: did unlawfully and willfully conceal and fail to disclose a felony to wit: the murder of demiko lee norris committed by melissa vera norris on april 11,
