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Recklessness can be defined as the conscious doing of an unjustifiable risk.
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Recklessness can be defined as the conscious doing of an unjustifiable risk which one has either of the following states of mind: (1) He may know of the risk; (2) He may not have considered whether or not there was a risk or; (3) He may have considered whether or not there was a risk and wrongfully concluded that there was no risk. Recklessness can be separated into two (2) types: 1: Cunningham Recklessness and 2: Caldwell Recklessness. In the case of Cunningham recklessness, in order for one to be convicted of being reckless, he had to have known of the risk. Therefore requirement (1), as mentioned before in the various states of mind, is what is liable in determining if one was reckless under the Cunningham concept. In the Cunningham Case (1957) , the defendant removed a gas meter from an unoccupied house so that he could steal the money contained in...
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