American Law Institute, Model Penal Code, Commentary § 210.2 & § 210.3

As we will see in Class #14, the Model Penal Code made major changes to the mens rea for homicide. But, the MPC commentaries do a good job of explaining the common law approach. So we'll start our exploration of common law homicide with an excerpt from the MPC commentaries.

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