'Causal overdetermination' provides middle ground for courts
Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 05:30
in Mathematics & Economics
A disagreement among state courts on the subject of drunk-driving homicide can be resolved by requiring the prosecution to prove in these cases not that the driver's intoxication caused the fatal accident, but merely that it contributed to the causal mechanism behind the accident, says a forthcoming paper by a University of Illinois expert on criminal law.