PA+Culpability


 * 301 Requirement of a Voluntary Act
 * A suspect is not guilty of an offense unless he was liable (or responsible for) for a crime which was based on something he did by his own choice and that they were physically able to do. Their confession, if they confess, must be backed up by evidence
 * 302 General Requirements of culpability
 * Except in the example as shown in article 305, a person is not guilty of a offense unless he acted on purpose, with knowledge, recklessly, or irresponsibly as the law may need with respect to each part of the offense.
 * 303 Casual Relationship Between Conduct and Result
 * The Suspect plans on a specific end-result for an intended crime, but the result varies
 * 304 Ignorance or Mistake
 * If the suspect doesn't know that what they did was considered a crime.
 * 305 A-Bo:Limitations on Scope of Culpability Requirement:
 * If the crime committed was only a summary offense.
 * 306 Liability for conduct of another:
 * A person may only be held accountable for what they do, unless they are legally accountable for that person.


 * 307 M.E. - Liability of Organization Certain Related Persons


 * 308 intoxication or drugged condition
 * A suspect will still be responsible for the homicide but if the suspect is intoxicated or drugged voluntary or involuntary they could get a lessened sentence
 * 309 Duress
 * when the defendant is forced to or threatened to be killed if they do not obey what another person says.
 * 310 Military Orders
 * If a person in the defense of his country is engaging in combat, they are doing nothing more than what their commanding officer said to do and therefor cannot be expected to be responsible for their actions if they are unlawful.
 * 311 Consent
 * If the victim gives permission to commit the crime
 * 312 De minimis infractions
 * The court may dismiss a prosectution reguarding the nature of the crime charged as an offense and the nature of other circumstances if it finds:
 * If it did not infringe a law or harm a person. If it did not persuade or induce a risk. If there is no Burden of proof or exception


 * 313-Entrapment.
 * In order to be entrapped into a crime a public law official or a person acting in cooperation with such an official must persuade or induce you to commit a crime with the exception of causing or threatening injury to a person.
 * 314-Guilty but mentally ill.
 * A person who offers a plea of guilty but mentally insane. There layer must be able to prove that they are or were legally insane at the time of the crime.
 * 315 Insanity

PA Preliminary Crime Information
 * The mental stability of a offender who is charged with an offense will only be admissible as a defense if the offense when the offender proves by a large amount of evidence that the offender was legally insane at the time. Legally insane is a term which means at the time of a offense the person was suffering from such psychological duress that they couldn't realize what they were doing.