Unlocking the Mystery of Mens Rea in Criminal Law
February 26, 2025 at 06:15PM
Understanding "mens rea" or the "guilty mind" is crucial in criminal law. It determines whether an act was intentional, reckless, or a mere oversight. This principle can be the key to crafting a strong defense, potentially reducing or dismissing charges. Dive into this essential legal concept to better comprehend how intent shapes justice! #CriminalLaw #MensRea
"I have a spoiler alert: There's nothing wrong w/trying to influence an election," #Blanche says. "It's called democracy." [not the charge. The charge is falsifying business records, the #MensRea is to influence. Besides which, influencing an election through illegal means is duh illegal]
"They put something sinsiter on this idea as if it were a crime," he continued. "You'll learn it's not."
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
Federal prosecutors on Mon rejected #Trump’s claims that he was unfairly charged w/holding on to #ClassifiedDocuments after he left office, saying that his case bore no comparison to the one in which #POTUS #Biden was cleared of wrongdoing even though he was found in possession of classified materials after leaving the vice presidency.
#law #legal #obstruction #MensRea #intent #gaslighting #propaganda #criminal #conspiracy #espionage #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith
Prosecutors Reject Claims of Unfairness in #Trump #ClassifiedDocuments Case
#JackSmith, the #SpecialCounsel, said in a court filing that never before had a fmr ofcl “engaged in conduct remotely similar to Trump’s.”
#law #legal #obstruction #MensRea #intent #gaslighting #propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/us/politics/prosecutors-trump-classified-documents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
[thought this might come in handy soon for those knowledge hungry folk of mastodon]
wikipedia: Mens rea #mensrea
In criminal law, mens rea (/ˈmɛnz ˈreɪə/; Law Latin for "guilty mind"[1]) is the mental state of a defendant who is accused of committing a crime. In common law jurisdictions, most crimes require proof both of mens rea and actus reus ("guilty act") before the defendant can be found guilty.
We don’t need a criminal lawyer
We need a “criminal “ lawyer
#PluckitOut .
The degree of care the average #law firm takes with clients files, storage, sending letters to clients asking them to come pick up boxes after cases close , destroying procedures after a certain time has expired, the huge cost of storage/ shredding services and that guy treated NATIONAL SECURITY documents like notes from the local rotary club. #law #intent #mensrea #crime
Game Over
#Trump captured on #tape talking about #classified document he kept after leaving the White House
by Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid & Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Federal prosecutors have obtained an #AudioRecording of a summer 2021 meeting in which fmr President Donald #Trump acknowledges he held onto a #classified Pentagon doc about a potential attack on Iran…
#Dissemination #ClassifiedDocuments #Espionage #Obstruction #Intent #MensRea #DOJ #Justice
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/politics/trump-tape-classified-document-iran-milley/index.html
#Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 #fraud but kept findings secret
An outside firm’s work was never released publicly after researchers uncovered #NoEvidence that the #2020election had been rigged for #JoeBiden
#BigLie #January6th #January6thCmte #DOJ #MensRea
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/11/trump-campaign-report-electoral-fraud/
We just watched live as right-wing streamer and newly-exposed Capitol riot participant Tomas Morales deleted his entire Telegram channel, one post at a time, until the whole channel vanished.
Don't worry, Tomas. We have everything forensically archived. Deleting your Telegram and locking down your Twitter account won't help you. Destroying evidence just makes you look guilty. #MensRea
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