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Code · Hawaii · Chapter 702

CHAPTER 702

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CHAPTER 702
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PENAL LIABILITY
Section
702-200 Requirement of voluntary act or voluntary omission
702-201 "Voluntary act" defined
702-202 Voluntary act includes possession
702-203 Penal liability based on an omission
702-204 State of mind required
702-205 Elements of an offense
702-206 Definitions of states of mind
702-207 Specified state of mind applies to all elements
702-208 Substitutes for negligence, recklessness, and
knowledge
702-209 Conditional intent
702-210 Requirement of wilfulness satisfied by acting
knowingly
702-211 State of mind as determinant of grade or class of a
particular offense
702-212 When state of mind requirements are inapplicable to
violations and to crimes defined by statutes other
than this Code
702-213 Effect of absolute liability in reducing grade of
offense to violation
702-214 Causal relationship between conduct and result
702-215 Intentional or knowing causation; different result
from that intended or contemplated
702-216 Reckless or negligent causation; different result
from that within the risk
702-217 Causation in offenses of absolute liability
702-218 Ignorance or mistake as a defense
702-219 Ignorance or mistake; reduction in grade and class
of the offense
702-220 Ignorance or mistake of law; belief that conduct not
legally prohibited
702-221 Liability for conduct of another
702-222 Liability for conduct of another; complicity
702-223 Liability for conduct of another; complicity with
respect to the result
702-224 Liability for conduct of another; exemption from
complicity
702-225 Liability for conduct of another; incapacity of
defendant; failure to prosecute or convict or
immunity of other person
702-226 Liability for conduct of another; multiple
convictions; different degrees
702-227 Penal liability of corporations and unincorporated
associations
702-228 Liability of persons acting, or under a duty to act,
in behalf of corporations or unincorporated
associations
702-229 Definitions relating to corporations and
unincorporated associations
702-230 Intoxication; self-induced; not self-induced;
pathological; affirmative defense
702-231 Duress
702-232 Military orders
702-233 Consent; general
702-234 Consent to bodily injury
702-235 Ineffective consent
702-236 De minimis infractions
702-237 Entrapment
Note
L 2001, c 91, §4 purports to amend this chapter.
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