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Example of Intent to Cause Serious Bodily Injury

6 October, 2015 - 17:40

Jay wants to injure Robbie, a track teammate, so that he will be the best runner in the high school track meet. Jay waits for Robbie outside the locker room and when Robbie exits, Jay attacks him and stabs him several times in the knee. Unfortunately, one of Jay’s stabbing wounds is in the carotid artery, and Robbie bleeds to death. Jay is acting with the intent to cause serious bodilinjury, which would be implied malice, or knowingly or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.