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To: Buttons12

1) what did the person do?

2) did they know what they were doing was unlawful? mens rea

Have to prove they knew they were doing something they shouldn’t do


147 posted on 07/07/2016 7:21:38 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Enchante

1917 statute specifying “gross negligence”

DOJ has only used it once in 99 yrs

DOJ has concerns about whether it is appropriate to ..... no reasonable prosecutor would bring the 2nd case in 100 yrs based on “gross negligence”

evidence of “great carelessness” but not mens rea


155 posted on 07/07/2016 7:23:29 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Enchante

A Yale-educated lawyer knows exactly what she was doing.
You want the American voters to suspend disbelief long enough to believe a Yale-educated lawyer did not know the laws regarding her actions?

Seriously?


256 posted on 07/07/2016 7:45:38 AM PDT by mabelkitty (Trump Train)
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