Chapter 4 – The Elements of a Crime

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“Thus, an Olympic swimmer may be deemed by the community as a shameful coward, or worse, for not rescuing a drowning child in the neighbor’s pool, but she is not a criminal.”

– State ex rel. Kuntz v. Montana Thirteenth Jud. Dist. Ct., 995 P.2d 951, 955 (Mont. 2000).