Business Case Problem

Business Case Problem with Sample Answer—CriminalLiability.During the morning rush hour, David Green threw bottles and platesfrom a twenty-sixth-floor hotel balcony overlooking Seventh Avenue in New YorkCity. A video of the incident also showed him doing cartwheels while holding abeer bottle and sprinting toward the balcony while holding a glass steadily in hishand. When he saw police on the street below and on the roof of the buildingacross the street, he suspended his antics but resumed tossing objects off thebalcony after the police left. He later admitted that he could recall what he haddone, but claimed to have been intoxicated and said his only purpose was toamuse himself and his friends. Did Green have the mental state required toestablish criminal liability? Discuss

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