The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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ISBN: 9781337535878
Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 10, Problem 4BCP
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Case summary:The person G, during the rush hour of the morning, started throwing bottles and plates on the street, from the twenty-sixth floor of a building and was seen sprinting in the balcony. After he noticed the police, he stopped for a while but resumed again after the police left. The person G later claimed that he was intoxicated and was doing so to entertain himself and his friends.
To find:The mental state of the person G to be liable for criminal liability.
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