Murder💕💕

• murder is defined as 


  sir edward coke “the unlawful killing of a human being, under the kings peace, with malice aforethought, express or implied”
• what sentence do you get for murder?


  a mandatory life sentence
• what is the mens rea for murder

  malice aforethought, express or implied
• unlawful killing 


  an unlawful killing is done through a voluntary act or omission
• a reasonable person in being (human being/creature)


  when the brain stem is active or when they are expelled from the womb and are no longer a foetus
• kings peace


  not a solider and killing not in the heat of war
• legal causation 


  there must be a substantial cause of death, and whether the defendants actions foreseeably led to the death of the victim
• mens rea


  the men’s rea for murder is either through the express intent to kill the victim or the implied intent to cause GBH
• express intent is split into two types 


  direct is having the intention to deliberately kill the victim and whereas oblique is indirect and not intending to kill