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  2. Model Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a model act designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the penal law of the United States. [1] [2] The MPC was a project of the American Law Institute (ALI), and was published in 1962 after a ten-year drafting period. [3]

  3. List of uniform acts (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Model Penal Code, which seeks to harmonize state criminal law statutes, is in effect a uniform act but it was developed by the American Law Institute and not the NCCUSL. Other model laws [ edit ]

  4. Criminal law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Model Penal Code allows that if an act is a result of mental disease or defect, and the defendant lacked substantial capacity to recognize the wrongfulness of the act or conform to legal conduct. ALI rule extinguishes liability if as a result of mental disease of defect, the defendant lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the ...

  5. Herbert Wechsler - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Wechsler (December 4, 1909 – April 26, 2000) was an American legal scholar and former director of the American Law Institute (ALI). He is most widely known for his constitutional law scholarship and for the creation of the Model Penal Code.

  6. Texas Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Penal Code is the principal criminal code of the U.S. state of Texas. It was originally enacted in 1856 and underwent substantial revision in 1973, with the passage of the Revised Penal Code, in large part based on the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code. [1] [2]

  7. ALI rule - Wikipedia

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    The ALI rule, or American Law Institute Model Penal Code rule, is a recommended rule for instructing juries how to find a defendant in a criminal trial is not guilty by reason of insanity.

  8. Sodomy laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1962, Illinois adopted the recommendations of the Model Penal Code and thus became the first state to remove criminal penalties for consensual sodomy from its criminal code, [7] almost a decade before any other state. Over the years, many of the states that did not repeal their sodomy laws had enacted legislation reducing the penalty.

  9. Criminal code - Wikipedia

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    A criminal code or penal code is a document that compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law.Typically a criminal code will contain offences that are recognised in the jurisdiction, penalties that might be imposed for these offences, and some general provisions (such as definitions and prohibitions on retroactive prosecution).