Sentence examples for form an intent from inspiring English sources

"The issue becomes, was he competent to form an intent?

They didn't have time to form an intent".

In 2009 this work was published as The Devil's Children, in which Loretta suggested that children have an imperfect grasp of the nature of death until well into adolescence, and so cannot form an intent to murder in the same sense as an adult.

So do the MRI scans indicate that Mr. Johnson could not form an intent to commit murder due to the presence of this lesion?

"From a lesion in the frontal lobe would you be able to tell if an individual was able to form an intent to commit a crime?" asked Mr. Greely the prosecuting attorney.

Addressing the question of intent, Sweeney said there was no psychiatric evidence that either defendant was incapable of forming an intent.

Rachel Brand QC, defending, described her client as a competent and loving mother, she also argued that the postnatal psychosis meant she was incapable of "forming an intent to either kill or cause really serious injury to her baby".

"Evidence developed in the investigation indicates that, contrary to the governor's testimony, he had not formed an intent prior to the game that the tickets other than his own would be paid for," according to the report by Ms. Kaye, the former chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals.

He told the jury there was no psychiatric evidence that either defendant was incapable of forming an intent.

The evaluation showed he was unable to form a criminal intent as a result of his illness.

Consequently, the examinee's capacity to form a specific intent at the time of the offence remained uncertain, implying lack of capacity to form mensrea[ 21], which, at least in part, negated criminal responsibility.