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  2. Culpability - Wikipedia

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    In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction. It has been noted that the word, culpability, "ordinarily has normative force, for in nonlegal English, a person is culpable only if he is justly to blame for his ...

  3. Criminal negligence - Wikipedia

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    The most culpable mens rea elements will have both foresight and desire on a subjective basis. Negligence arises when, on a subjective test, an accused has not actually foreseen the potentially adverse consequences to the planned actions, and has gone ahead, exposing a particular individual or unknown victim to the risk of suffering injury or loss.

  4. Homicide in English law - Wikipedia

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    For example, the crime of murder uniquely carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment, regardless of the degree to which the defendant is morally culpable provided they are legally culpable. To use another example: causing injury by dangerous driving carries a maximum sentence of two years, whereas causing death by dangerous driving ...

  5. Third defendant who pleaded guilty in Palm Beach hotel-fraud ...

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    A third defendant who pleaded guilty in a felony fraud case involving the failed renovation of a Palm Beach hotel will serve no prison time, a Connecticut judge ruled Tuesday in a New Haven ...

  6. British trader found guilty of £1bn fraud - AOL

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    A British hedge fund trader has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Denmark, after being found guilty of orchestrating a tax fraud that cost the Danish government more than £1bn.

  7. Justifiable homicide - Wikipedia

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    According to Black's Law Dictionary justifiable homicide applies to the blameless killing of a person, such as in self-defense. [1]The term "legal intervention" is a classification incorporated into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, and does not denote the lawfulness or legality of the circumstances surrounding a death caused by law enforcement. [2]

  8. “RHOA” Alum Peter Thomas Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud ... - AOL

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    A verdict on Peter Thomas' tax fraud case has been reached.. On Thursday, Dec. 18, the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 64, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax ...

  9. Culpable homicide - Wikipedia

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    Rather, the term is used in the Criminal Code to classify all killings of persons as either culpable or not culpable homicide. [1] There are three types of culpable homicide: murder, manslaughter and infanticide. Killings classified as not culpable are justifiable killings; thus the term is used to define the criminal intent or mens rea of a ...