Sentence examples for required state of mind from inspiring English sources

Hatch has proposed legislation to provide a default mens rea — literally, "guilty mind" — standard to govern cases in which a particular statute doesn't spell out the required state of mind: The defendant would have to have engaged in a criminal act "willfully" in order to be prosecuted.

See Section 21D(b)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (requiring plaintiff to "state with particularity facts giving rise to a strong inference that the defendant acted with the required state of mind").

This law requires us to live in an ahuman place, where supposition, curiosity and tribalism play no part in such a decision; where the required state of mind is disinterest.

Furthermore, the crime lay 'in the instigator's intent to cause the required state of mind in a third party'.

Also if you drift too much and get too accustomed to the required state of mind, you might find yourself doing it involuntarily, which can be dangerous when driving for long distances or such.

I can always conjure other types of music, but that requires a state of mind you can't always harness".

I guess doing the really creative academic work does require a state of mind that's hard to maintain throughout your whole life.

The plaintiff's allegation that Zezulka violated certain mandatory DPS regulations does not rise to the level of deliberate indifference, the state-of-mind required to sustain an action under § 1983 for a violation of a pretrial detainee's civil rights.

This would provide violators with bullet-proof protection — requiring not just evidence, but state-of-mind proof of a crooked dealer's premeditation to break the law.

1736, 36 L.Ed.2d 503 (1973), contains a state-of-mind condition requiring something more than negligence.

It is on the ferry from St Mary's to Bryher that I realise life on the Scilly Isles requires a different state of mind.