Practice question · True or false
Article 5 of the Criminal Code provides that there is no penalty without intent or negligence.
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- The provision is one short sentence.
- It excludes liability for a result alone.
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True
Why
True, and the brevity conceals how much it excludes. Strict criminal liability for a result, liability for another's act, and liability for chance are all cut off by that sentence. Everything the rest of this unit builds — the theory of intent, of negligence, of imputation — is an elaboration of what those six words require.
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