"voluntary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, ten states have rejected that specific intent can be negated by voluntary intoxication.
- Some jurisdictions allow voluntary intoxication in the context of a preexisting mental disorder to qualify for an insanity defense.
- Hicks's lawyers have argued that under Ohio law, voluntary intoxication may be considered a mitigating factor in capital cases.
- Absence because of voluntary intoxication is not a proper reason to continue a civil case.
- The case set the precedent that voluntary intoxication, whether by drink or drugs, cannot be used to establish defences of automatism or insanity.
- Neither voluntary nor involuntary intoxication provide a defence in English law in themselves.
- The alternative is that the voluntary intoxication provides a "prior fault" which substitutes for the mens rea required.
- This would leave the prosecution the task of showing voluntary intoxication to the satisfaction of the jury and the avoidance of doubt.
- Assault is a crime of "basic intent" for the purposes of the Majewski test concerning voluntary intoxication.
- The Majewski test is applied to cases of voluntary intoxication, as battery is also a crime of "basic intent" in this scenario.
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