Sentence examples for guilty mind from inspiring English sources

A 2002 Florida law eliminated the requirement of a "guilty mind," or "mens rea," as part of a drug offense.

A fundamental principle of criminal law, Mr. Sullivan said, is "the confluence of a guilty mind and a guilty act".

Although most legal systems recognize the importance of the guilty mind, or mens rea, the statutes have not always spelled out exactly what is meant by this concept.

Palmer's handling of her dream-monologue, her guilty mind shredded "like a gown eaten by moths", was a tour de force.

The prosecution could use the friendship between codefendants to insinuate a meeting of minds,creating a slippery slope from being a witness to having a guilty mind.

MENS REA is a legal term that is Latin for "guilty mind," and was not MEN'S WEAR, no matter how hard you (and by that I mean me) tried to cram that in.

The changes in the names given to this event testify to the perpetrators' guilty minds.

That he's an "over-thinker" guilty of "mind-changing".

"He's not going to be found guilty, so my mind don't go in that direction, not at all".

For most familiar crimes (murder, robbery, rape, arson), the law requires that the actor have some guilty state of mind, whether it is intent, recklessness or negligence.

In the April 2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the article by Rebeccas Saxe and her co-authors make the context of their research around the RTPJ more clear: "According to a basic tenet of criminal law, 'the act does not make the person guilty unless the mind is also guilty.'" We can see why it would be good for a juror to have a well-developed RTPJ.