Substantive Criminal Law is hard.

[clex_monkie89]

You know what's fun? Taking a class where one of the questions on your midterm is this:

12. Which of the following are causes that are deemed separate enough from the defendant's actions so that it would be unfair to hold him or her responsible for it' results.

A. Independent interrupting causes
B. Dependent intervening causes
C. Independent intervening causes
D. Dependent interrupting causes

For the record I'm picking C because I don't have anything relative to this question in my notes or my book. Basically I did a google search and tried to figure out WTF the answer might be. Not a lot of help there though because trying to decipher a case is not easy.

I have answered 14 out of 41 questions so far. And five of them have questions marks next to them because they were obviously talked about on days when I couldn't catch the bus in time and therefor could not take notes in class.

Boo. I am going to fail my midterm and then cry all the way through Spring Break.

Comments

[lemmealone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, C sounds right to me - a new intervening act would do it.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

I hope we're right.

[ellipsisblack.livejournal.com]

Oh, how dreadful. :/ I'd go with C too. it sounds more legalistic (<-- is an arts student XD!).

Good luck! *smoosh*

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

B and C are the only ones that turned anything up when I punched them into google so I figure I think I have a fifty-fifty chance of getting it right.

[aeroport_art.livejournal.com]

Dude, a midterm full of questions like that? *slowly backs away*

I'm just writing a 6-page paper about a dress today. It's funner being in the shallow majors! :D:D:D

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Boo! You suck!

[annkiri.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That sounds hard! I like your answer though. Makes sense to me.

Good Luck!!! You can do it!

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Thank you; here's to hoping!

[hrada.livejournal.com]

After doing some research, I agree that it's C. If I understand it right, an independent intervening clause would be if I stole your cupcake and you got really mad and decided to shoot someone because of it. There's no way a reasonable person could have predicted that would happen. A depended intervening clause would be like if I put plants on a windowsill of an open window, and my cat knocks one off and onto a pedestrian on a busy sidewalk below. It's a little extreme, but a reasonable person could foresee it happening, and I'd probably be liable.

Please don't yell at me if I got this wrong! I think I got it right! :D

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

If it's wrong I'm gutting you like a fish.