in a, the mens rea is the type of intent, and the crime is murder. in b, the mens rea -- and the crime is culpable homicide, closed quote. my view is that we are here not dealing with -- it would tlefr serve no purpose to say anything else about it. we are clearly dealing with error in persona in that the blow was meant for the person behind the toilet door who the accused believed was an intruder. the blow struck and killed the person behind the door. the fact that the person behind the door turned out to be the deceased and not an intruder is irrelevant. the starting point, however, once more is whether the accused had the intention to kill the person behind the toilet door whom he mistook for an intruder. the accused had intention to shoot at the person in the toilet but states that he never intended to kill that person. in other words, he raised a sense of private defense. 1993, volume 2, capital s, capital a, capital c, capital r, 59, in brackets, capital a, closed bracket, at 63 and 64, a distinction was drawn between private defense as a defen

right before i have criminal intent i have to mens rea syndrome. fortunately i'm not suffering tonight. [laughter] weren't you listening to that's like what? that flight was? all right. thanks very much. now we will hear from the defending attorney in the case. are you prepared to give your opening statement? this is a debate about american foreign policy. how to debate about obama foreign-policy. it's a debate about the impact of this country and its actions in the world, on the world and on us. i want to start by talking about the impact of america on the world into the good way deadly to ask that question is to simply ask what would the world look like if the influence of america were shot in 20 because that is basically what it means for america to be noninterventionist is to have zero impact on the world. that would be to think of america as canada has zero impact on the world. things can happen all over the world. america used to be like that. we had no influence on to basically world war ii and then we started having an impact in what has th

just so you know, sometimes right before i have criminal intent, i have pre-mens rea syndrome. fortunately, i'm not suffering from that tonight, or you would all be host. no, he didn't, right? are you listening to that and like, what? if you very much. now we're going to you from mr. dinesh d'souza, defending attorney in this case. are you prepared to give your opening statement of? >> i am. >> very good. >> so, this is a debate about american foreign policy is, not a debate about obama's foreign policy, not a debate about the patriot act. it's a debate about the impact of this country and its actions in the world, on the world and on us. and i want to starve a dog that the impact of america on the world. a good way to ask the question is to ask this, what would the world look like if the influence of america were shrunken 20? because that's basically what it means for america to be not interventionist is for america to have zero impact on the world. i would be for america to be config of america as another candidate. canada has zero impact on the world. things can happen all o

. >> don't you think men rea inte comes right down to it. >> oh, please.re we going to go back to that? >> no man has ever put his hands up a woman's dress looking for a library card. when christmas is over i am a shop-a-haulic i am going to the bet f betty ford center for shop-a-haulics. oh, oh, very rough regime there. they take you in a room and they sit you down and they show you pictures of queen elizabeth all dressed up. no! you will never shop again. >> continuing our special report as you just saw it joan rivers had the rare ability to remain lovable even as she hurled crude insult after insult from everything from the first lady to the widows of 9-11. how did she get away with it when comics like my next guest got burned? he's the one and only gilbert godfrey. he lost his gig as the af flack duck after joking about tsunami victims in japan. oo why you and not joan rivers? >> joan rivers actually spoke out for me around that time. she spoke in an interview and said that firing me was idea yac idio idiotic. she said he did what comedians are suppose