CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter HW#3: Harvard Step Test, Aneurysm, Res Ipsa Loquitur
8 Mar 2016
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C144 criminal law homework assignment #3: explain the difference between but-for causation and proximate causation and provide an example of each, but-for causation is also known as cause-in-fact. It can be explained if the harm resulted is the foreseeable result of the defendant"s actions. Acosta could not control or have the culpable mens rea of having the two helicopters crash into each other resulting in the death of three people. It couldn"t be found that he consciously disregarded a risk which was barely objectively cognizable. : why is people v. warner-lambert co. (pg. 516) different from people v. kibbe (discussed in the arzon case on pg. In people v. kibbe, kibbe robbed stafford of all his money and his car, and he left. Stafford on the side of the road with his pants around his ankles and without his glasses.
