Is intent an illusion?
Bob Johnson draws on his experience of working in prisons
Sixty murderers can teach you a great deal about the law, especially if you get to know them really well, as I did over five years in Parkhurst Prison. A good number of them were not murderers at all – the law is quite clear that you have to have the intent to kill to qualify for the crime of murder. ‘When you picked up that spade, did you intend to dig or to kill?’ No intent means no murder.
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