Gorman v. People

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]he culpable mental state of knowingly applies to the act of contributing to the delinquency” of a minor.
• To subject a person to criminal liability, “there must be concurrence of the actus reus, an unlawful act, and the mens rea, a culpable mental state.”
• stating that Colorado case law recognizes that the mens rea of knowingly applies to \ the act enunciated in the statute \ when the statute is silent on a culpable mental state
• recognizing that \ we have held that the mens rea of knowingly applies to the act enunciated in the statute . . . when the statute does not specify a culpable mental state\
• referring to “the actus reus” as “an unlawful act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).