What if the boy was a robot? How will courts decide if there was intent when a robot is charged with battery?
Quark Twain
2022-05-23 11:17:19 +0000 UTC
My first thought aligns with Thomas : βit should be some negligence tort probablyβ. My second thought: βis battery even a tort and not just a crime? Are all crimes also torts?β
Iβm going with C because the intent requires it to be a foreseeable risk of what you intended to do. If you swing a hammer and hit someone who happened to sneak up behind you it wouldnβt be battery. If you swing a hammer at someone and hit them, even if you didnβt mean to hit them, then it would be battery. So he would have to have known she was there to have the appropriate mens rea for the crime. But this is a tort not a criminal trial so this could all be wrong.