Causation

Question 1

Definition

Answer 1

Where a dangerous situation has been created, or the victim is in a zone of danger. By the conduct of the defendant, the defendant is criminally liable for the death that resulted.

Question 2

True or false do you only need to establish it is a cause of death and it does not have to be the cause for the defendant to be criminally liable

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Prosecutors must prove that the defendants act was both what

Answer 3

factual cause: the harm would not have occurred at the time unless the defendant engaged in the conned
Proximate cause : the harm is a natural improbable consequence of the defendants act

Question 4

Types of causation

Answer 4

Intervening cause and superseding cause

Question 5

intervening cause

Answer 5

A dependent or foreseeable act that does not break the chain of causation

Question 6

Superseding intervening cause

Answer 6

an independent act committed by someone else, a third-party, that supersedes the wrongful conduct of the defendant and breaks the chain of causation