Premeditation or predetermination of a crime, increasing the guilt or enormity of the crime.
(Law) criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (including knowledge that the act is illegal); often at issue in murder trials.
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Examples for "mens rea "
1 How can we establish intention - " mens rea " , or the "guilty mind" - beyond a reasonable doubt?
2 The judgement said in light of this it was Anne Stevens' opinion that a mens rea defence would have been hopeless.
3 Some key Republican senators are reluctant to support the bill until it includes changes to " mens rea " laws that govern criminal intent.
4 Central to the criminal law system we have is the idea of intent or, in legalese mens rea , which conveys the idea of "guilty mind".
5 Mens rea reform was excluded from the Senate measure because its authors were divided on the issue.
1 And in his case he does it deliberately and of malice aforethought .
2 God knows; she might think it was done spitefully, with malice aforethought .
3 Now, let us go forth and smite the ungodly with malice aforethought .
4 Indeed, I have with malice aforethought ransacked his works to find them.
5 Terrible as is his crime, he never committed it out of malice aforethought .
6 I'll have thee to the justice, sirrah, for wicked malice aforethought , and misprision.
7 Why is it you are always ashamed of your country? with malice aforethought .
8 He had acted in cold blood, with malice aforethought , without hesitation or regret.
9 All that is bad in his works is bad elaborately, and of malice aforethought .
10 This sailing with a "dry" boat was malice aforethought on my part.
11 But he is much given to making threats, bearing grudges and behaving with malice aforethought .
12 But even granting that, one could scarcely help suspecting malice aforethought in the curious provision.
13 One thing was for sure: whoever it was had done it with complete malice aforethought .
14 I think he did it with malice aforethought , too.
15 A string quartet was committing Mozart with malice aforethought .
16 Which is how I found myself on a crowded train to Oxford-shire, with malice aforethought .
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