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Crime And Jurisdiction

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Crime and Jurisdiction
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CRIMINAL LAW 2
Criminal Law
Crime and Jurisdiction
Proving a crime often means that the perpetrator will go to jail on conviction. Therefore
the courts are very strict on the thresholds of information that they admit as evidence in a
prosecution. In penal law, there are two elements to almost every crime in the book. They
encompass the criminal act itself and what is presumed to be the thought process that drives the
actor. The former is known as the ‘actus reus’ and the lattermens rea.' A combination of these
two beyond a reasonable doubt will move any court to a firm conviction.
Unless one is proven not to be in his senses, the thought of an act or omission is usually
the first stage of a criminal endeavor. The person must demonstrably think that they want to do
something. Ideas alone cannot sustain a conviction unless the mental element is for a verbal
crime. Mens rea is exhibited through the words of a person. A guilty mind is one proven to have
malicious intent. Often that is seen through submissions that portray the actor as having the
purpose to achieve a nefarious outcome through a deliberate act or omission. That is the
foundation of the phrase, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea. That is, only a guilty mind can
command a guilty hand.
The guilty hand is the one that causes harm through a preconceived intention. That is an
easy thing to determine. The penal code determines what act is criminal. Here too, the burden of
proof is high, with substantial evidence linking the act or omission to the person being the only
way of determining culpability.

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Running head: CRIMINAL LAW 1 Crime and Jurisdiction Name Institution CRIMINAL LAW 2 Criminal Law Crime and Jurisdiction Proving a crime often means that the perpetrator will go to jail on conviction. Therefore the courts are very strict on the thresholds of information that they admit as evidence in a prosecution. In penal law, there are two elements to almost every crime in the book. They encompass the criminal act itself and what is presumed to be the thought process that drives the actor. The former is known as the ‘actus reus’ and the latter ’mens rea.' A combination of these two beyond a reasonable doubt will move any court to a firm conviction. Unless one is proven not to be in his senses, the thought of an act or omission is usually the first stage of a criminal endeavor. The person must demonstrably think that they want to do something. Ideas alone cannot sustain a conviction unless the mental element is for a verbal crime. Mens rea is exhibited through the words of a person. A guilty mind is one proven to have malicious intent. Often that is seen through submissions that portray the actor as having the purpose to achieve a nefarious outcome through a deliberate ...
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