Ohio shores up mens rea requirement in criminal law

The governor of Ohio has signed a historic measure providing that newly created crimes will be deemed to include a mens rea requirement unless lawmakers have made express provision for liability on a lesser basis. Now other states need to look at the same idea [Isaac Gorodetski/James Copland, Economics 21; Elizabeth Brown; text; earlier on mens rea here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here]

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  • There’s hope for sanity in the land. Governor Kasich looks like the sort we need to head the ticket in 2016!