Impossible Crime

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1. Does factual impossibility necessarily mean the actor lacked criminal intent?
2. A person performs the relevant acts intending to kill someone already dead, unknowingly. The act constitutes no separat…
3. A person merely imagines an impossible theft and performs no execution acts. May the prosecutor use social danger alone…
4. An actor performs the relevant execution acts with intent to kill an already-dead target, believing the target alive. N…
5. One actor performs impossible-crime execution acts; another only fantasizes about the same plan. A prosecutor argues Ar…
6. Distinguish an impossible objective from absence of evil intent.
7. Can Article59’s social-danger assessment make mere fantasy an impossible crime?
8. Analyze the doctrinal question where a person unknowingly directs qualifying execution acts against an already-dead int…