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Written Piece for the Autumn Term
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Written Piece for the Autumn Term In the course of a mugging Debby manages to unintentionally cause the death of fellow pupils as well as causing a chain of events leading to the death of a teacher. The death of the pupils can definitely be attributed to Debby, one through an act and the other though a omission, but liability for the death of the teacher is less certain. On deciding Debby's criminal liability for each of her actions one must try to identify the mens rea for each actus reus that has been committed. This will be particularly important concerning the deaths as it will mean the difference between a conviction of murder and one of manslaughter (or neither); a mandatory life sentence with the former and a possibly much lesser sentence with the latter. With this in mind we must explore all of the appropriate defences of manslaughter in...
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