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The exam hands you the statute, which means the only way to lose points is to answer from memory instead.

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In this episode:

• The provided text governs, even against the majority rule
• Read a statute as an if-then machine
• And, or, unless, shall and may decide most answers
• Will substitutes pass outside the will entirely
• Never conclude without citing the provision you applied

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A stepfather wants to adopt, everyone in the room agrees it would be better for the child, and the law still says not yet.

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In this episode:

• Three tools on a spectrum, from guardianship to termination to adoption
• The home state governs a termination, and tribal heritage can move it
• A voluntary surrender must be knowing, voluntary, and properly timed
• A proven statutory ground comes first, best interests second
• Adoption needs every required consent or a completed termination

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No marriage, no adoption, no paperwork of any kind, and three years later a court calls him the child's legal parent.

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In this episode:

• Parentage has many independent routes, not one
• A presumption or acknowledgment outranks a late DNA test
• Donors are not parents; intent controls assisted reproduction
• Guidelines are a rebuttable presumption, deviations need written findings
• Modification is prospective only; arrears never shrink

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A mother moves her child to a new state, lives there eighteen months, files for a new custody order, and the court she left still controls the case.

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In this episode:

• Legal custody decides; physical custody houses, and they split
• Best interests is gender-neutral, and private conduct needs a nexus
• A fit parent's decision gets special weight against any nonparent
• Modification takes a substantial change first, then best interests
• The decree state keeps exclusive continuing jurisdiction over its order

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One decree can leave two people validly single and still decide nothing at all about the money.

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In this episode:

• A court does three separate jobs: status, property, support
• Domicile grants the divorce; personal jurisdiction is needed for money
• Void is a nullity from the start, voidable is valid until annulled
• Title never controls; classification decides most property questions
• Property division is final, periodic alimony is modifiable

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Dana marries Sam twice over in this episode, on facts that differ by a single detail, and only one of those marriages ever legally existed.

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In this episode:

• Bigamy and incest make a marriage void; consent defects make it voidable
• Only a spouse may attack a voidable marriage, and only while alive
• Common-law marriage needs present agreement, not just long cohabitation
• Under the classic UPAA, unconscionability alone will not defeat a prenup
• A marriage valid where celebrated is valid everywhere

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Three equal partners, one unpaid judgment, and the creditor may take every dollar of it from whichever partner happens to have savings.

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In this episode:

• General partners are jointly and severally liable for everything
• Corporate and LLC owners are shielded by status, not by conduct
• You always own your own torts and your own guarantees
• Piercing needs domination plus injustice, never domination alone
• LLC formalities are discounted, so piercing leans on commingling

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Mara is denied a dividend and keeps every dollar she wins, then sues over a looted treasury and keeps nothing at all.

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In this episode:

• Ask who was harmed and who would keep the recovery
• Special injury is dead, so shared harm can still be derivative
• MBCA demand is universal, with no futility excuse
• The LLC act keeps the futility escape hatch
• The entity keeps the money, the plaintiff recovers fees

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Two directors, one boardroom, and the one whose deal actually made money is the one who gets sued.

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In this episode:

• Care is protectable; loyalty is not
• The business judgment rule never shields self-dealing
• Disclosure unlocks the conflict safe harbors
• Partners and members answer only for gross negligence
• In a manager-managed company, function decides who owes duties

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A company president signs a contract her own bylaws forbid, and the corporation is bound anyway, which tells you how every governance question in this topic works.

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In this episode:

• Shareholders elect, directors govern as a body, officers bind
• Abstentions are not no votes; only votes cast count
• Preemptive rights and cumulative voting are opt-in features
• Directors' written consent must always be unanimous
• An LLC operating agreement controls; the statute fills gaps

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Dana signs a lease as president of a company that does not exist yet, and the signature buys her nothing at all.

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In this episode:

• No principal exists, so the promoter who signs is bound
• Corporations adopt, never ratify, and adoption runs forward
• Adoption adds an obligor, only novation or release subtracts one
• A promoter may profit, but never secretly
• When the property was acquired sets the recoverable profit

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A corporation is not born when the founders shake hands, and two bakers found that out from a landlord holding an unpaid lease.

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In this episode:

• Every entity has a public charter and a private rulebook
• Statute beats articles, and articles beat bylaws
• A shareholder agreement needs every shareholder, not a majority
• An LLC needs an effective certificate and at least one member
• An operating agreement can be oral or implied from conduct

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Two people never filed the paperwork for their LLC, and the law quietly made each of them liable for every dollar.

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In this episode:

• A partnership forms from conduct, no intent required
• A botched LLC leaves the owners as general partners
• Ordinary-course acts bind the firm, extraordinary acts need authority
• Dissociation is not dissolution, except in a partnership at will
• The agreement controls, but cannot erase the mandatory core

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Two drivers crash the same afternoon delivering the same groceries, and only one of them costs the company anything.

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In this episode:

• Employee status turns on the right to control manner and means
• Only in-scope torts by employees reach the employer
• A detour stays in scope, a frolic does not
• Vicarious liability needs no employer fault at all
• A joint enterprise needs a financial stake and equal control

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A sales manager hands out a discount his boss expressly forbade, and the dealership is bound to it anyway.

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In this episode:

• Actual authority is principal to agent; apparent is principal to third party
• A secret limit never shrinks apparent authority already created
• A disloyal agent disgorges even a fair, harmless deal
• Disclosed principal, agent walks away; otherwise both are liable
• Death ends actual authority only once the agent has notice

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A buyer pays full price, searches the record, finds everything in perfect order, and still ends up owning nothing at all.

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In this episode:

• Classify the statute first: notice, race-notice, or race
• Only a purchaser for value without notice gets the statute's protection
• Notice comes in three forms, and any one of them disqualifies
• Recorded is not the same as inside the chain of title
• A forged deed is void, and no good-faith buyer can cure it

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A fence and ten years take the land; a signed deed across a closing table sometimes takes nothing.

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In this episode:

• Actual, open, hostile, exclusive, continuous, for the whole period
• Permission destroys hostility and stops the clock cold
• Tacking needs privity; an ouster breaks the chain
• Delivery means present intent, not who holds the paper
• Present covenants break at delivery and do not run

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Two buyers bid at two foreclosure sales on identical houses, and only one of them walks away owning it free and clear.

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In this episode:

• The mortgage follows the note, with or without an assignment
• A purchase-money mortgage jumps ahead of earlier claims against the buyer
• Lien theory is the majority: borrower keeps title and possession
• Juniors below the foreclosing lien die, seniors above it survive
• Equitable redemption pays the debt, statutory redemption pays the sale price

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A buyer with no written contract can force the sale of the land itself, and yet cannot collect a single dollar in damages.

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In this episode:

• Only the party to be charged needs to sign the memorandum
• Part performance wins specific performance, never damages
• Marketable title is owed at closing, not one day earlier
• Accepting the deed merges the contract's title promises away
• An as-is clause never shields fraud or active concealment

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The neighbor wants to open a machine shop in his garage, and whether you can stop him turns on which courthouse you walk into.

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In this episode:

• Privity is required for damages and never for an injunction
• Analyze burden and benefit separately, each runs on its own
• Horizontal privity needs a conveyance, not a side agreement
• A common scheme implies negative servitudes only, never affirmative duties
• Equitable defenses can defeat a servitude that satisfies every element

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Olga sells the back field and the deed says nothing about the gravel lane, and yet the buyer may still drive it every day.

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In this episode:

• Servient land is burdened, dominant land is benefited
• An ambiguous easement is read as appurtenant, not in gross
• A botched easement collapses into a revocable license
• Necessity easements die with the necessity, prior-use easements do not
• Mere nonuse never abandons an easement

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A racially restrictive covenant is not unconstitutional, and the moment a judge is asked to enforce it, everything changes.

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In this episode:

• The Fourteenth Amendment needs state action; the FHA and § 1982 do not
• A covenant is private; judicial enforcement of it is state action
• Seven federal classes, and age and income are not among them
• Advertising and race are never exempt from the Fair Housing Act
• Accommodation changes a policy; modification changes the premises

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A tenant stops paying rent and stays put in a freezing apartment, and whether that ruins her case or wins it depends on which half of the lease she sues on.

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In this episode:

• Identify a tenancy by how it ends and what notice is needed
• A landlord's partial eviction relieves the tenant of all rent
• Assignment never releases the original tenant absent a novation
• Constructive eviction requires vacating; habitability does not
• The modern landlord must mitigate after a tenant abandons

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A deed says the property goes to Mara and Nolan, jointly, and one missing word decides whether Nolan's nephew inherits half a warehouse or nothing at all.

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In this episode:

• Modern law presumes tenancy in common, never survivorship
• Joint tenancy needs four unities and express survivorship words
• Severance kills survivorship; with three tenants only that share converts
• Solo occupancy owes no rent, but third-party rents are shared
• Taxes and mortgage support contribution; improvements earn only a credit

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Two deeds put the same string on the same land, and only one of them ends the Town's ownership by itself.

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In this episode:

• Durational words end an estate automatically, conditional words need action
• A remainder waits, an executory interest cuts an estate short
• Contingent means an unborn taker or an unmet condition precedent
• Courts do not imply a survivorship requirement
• A total restraint on a fee simple is void

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A witness remembers the crash because she had just left the bakery, and the baker says she was never there.

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In this episode:

• The collateral rule decides when extrinsic evidence is allowed
• Bias and capacity are never collateral
• FRE 608(b) is cross-examination only and must show dishonesty
• Crimes of dishonesty come in against everyone automatically
• Rehabilitation must answer the specific attack made

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A woman describes the same attack twice on the same night, and only one of those accounts can ever reach a jury.

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In this episode:

• Hearsay and confrontation are two separate hurdles
• Only testimonial statements trigger the Clause
• Unavailability alone is never enough without prior cross
• A testifying declarant cures the problem completely
• A hearsay exception cannot rescue a testimonial statement

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A dying woman names the man who shot her, every element of the exception is met, and the statement still does not come in.

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In this episode:

• FRE 803 ignores availability; FRE 804 requires an unavailable declarant
• Present sense impression needs speed; excited utterance needs stress
• Medical statements cover cause, but usually not fault or identity
• Dying declarations work only in homicide prosecutions and civil cases
• Every layer of hearsay inside a record needs its own exception

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The same sentence, spoken once, is inadmissible hearsay for one side of the case and perfectly good evidence for the other.

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In this episode:

• Statement, out of court, offered for its truth, all three or nothing
• Fix what the statement is offered to prove before labeling it
• Exclusions say it was never hearsay, exceptions concede it was
• A party’s own words come in even when self-serving
• Every layer of a layered statement needs its own ticket in

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The evidence is relevant, reliable, and devastating, and the law throws it out on purpose.

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In this episode:

• A privilege hides the communication, never the underlying fact
• Testimonial immunity dies at divorce, marital communications survive it
• Work product needs anticipated litigation, not confidentiality
• No federal physician privilege, but there is a psychotherapist one
• Every policy exclusion bars one purpose and permits others

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The only witness to the promise is dead, and whether Dana may say a word about it turns on why she happens to be in federal court.

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In this episode:

• Everyone is competent, but personal knowledge and an oath are required
• Jurors may reveal outside influences, never what happened inside deliberations
• Refreshing needs the memory back, recorded recollection needs it gone
• Judicial notice binds a civil jury, never a criminal one
• A limiting instruction comes only if a party asks for it

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A cashier who watched $500 cross the counter can testify to it, and a cashier who only read the receipt cannot.

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In this episode:

• Authentication asks only whether a reasonable juror could find it genuine
• Authenticating a document does not make it admissible
• Lay handwriting familiarity must predate the litigation; voice need not
• Best evidence applies only to proving a document's content
• A duplicate must come from a mechanical copying process

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A bartender says two sentences about the same customer on the same night, and only one of them is allowed to reach the jury.

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In this episode:

• Basis, not title, decides lay opinion versus expert opinion
• Rule 701 needs perception, helpfulness, and no specialized knowledge
• The judge gatekeeps reliability; the proponent shows each element
• Rule 703 disclosure runs a reverse balancing test
• Rule 704(b) bars opinions on a criminal defendant's mental state

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A defendant calls one neighbor to say he is a peaceful man, and hands the prosecution a weapon he can never take back.

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In this episode:

• Sort the purpose first, because purpose picks the rule
• Only the defendant opens the propensity door in a criminal case
• Attack the victim's character and the same trait boomerangs back
• Other acts come in only for a non-propensity purpose
• Habit is specific, regular and reflexive; character is not

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Fleeing the state proves nothing about guilt, and the jury gets to hear about it anyway.

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In this episode:

• Relevance needs any tendency to prove a fact of consequence
• A brick is not a wall, sufficiency is not relevance
• Rule 403 excludes only when danger substantially outweighs probative value
• Prejudicial is not unfairly prejudicial
• An offer to stipulate never destroys relevance

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A lawyer is appointed at the arraignment, and two days later the police question the same man without that lawyer, lawfully.

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In this episode:

• The Sixth Amendment attaches at formal charging and is offense-specific
• Counsel is required at every critical stage, not photo arrays
• Ineffective assistance needs deficient performance and prejudice
• A suggestive identification still comes in if reliable
• Serious means more than six months, and petty offenses never aggregate

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A suspect walks into a police station, talks for twenty minutes, admits she was at the scene, and nobody reads her a single right.

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In this episode:

• Miranda needs custody and interrogation, both at once
• Compelled, testimonial and incriminating, all three or nothing
• Silence must be invoked out loud, not merely kept
• Asking for counsel is a far stronger shield than silence
• A Miranda slip is leaky; coercion is airtight exclusion

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Police break down a door without knocking and the drugs come in, but the same officers with no warrant lose everything they touch.

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In this episode:

• The rule deters police misconduct; it is not a personal right
• It bites only in the prosecution's case-in-chief, not every proceeding
• Independent source, inevitable discovery and attenuation purge the taint
• Good faith admits evidence when there was no misconduct to deter
• Fourth Amendment rights are personal, so borrowed standing fails

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The affidavit was solid, the guns were exactly where the officer said, and the warrant was void the moment it issued.

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In this episode:

• Probable cause, oath, neutral magistrate, particularity
• No warrant means the government must fit a listed exception
• A secured arrestee no longer unlocks a car search
• Phone data needs a warrant; the phone itself does not
• Show of authority seizes only on submission; force seizes instantly

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A dog on the porch is a search and a helicopter overhead is not, and the whole Fourth Amendment turns on knowing which is which.

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In this episode:

• No search means the Fourth Amendment never applies at all
• Privacy invaded or protected area physically intruded, either one counts
• Open fields get nothing, curtilage gets full home protection
• Reasonable suspicion buys a stop and frisk, probable cause buys more
• A suspicionless program lives or dies by its primary purpose

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A masked man reaches the credit union door, panics, and drives away without taking a dollar, and the crime is already complete.

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In this episode:

• Attempt merges into the finished crime; conspiracy never does
• Attempted murder needs intent to kill, nothing less
• Factual impossibility is no defense; true legal impossibility is
• Pinkerton reaches crimes in furtherance and reasonably foreseeable
• Mere presence is not accomplice liability; knowledge is not purpose

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A man who decided not to drive, and fell asleep in a parked car to prove it, can still be convicted of drunk driving.

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In this episode:

• Possession needs knowledge plus dominion, mere presence is never enough
• Trafficking weight is strict liability, and mixture counts the filler
• Per se and impairment are two independent routes to DUI
• Voluntary intoxication is never a defense to DUI
• States may criminalize refusing a breath test, not a blood test

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A thief who already has the phone shoves the barista chasing him, and that one shove turns a petty theft into a violent felony.

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In this episode:

• Apply the provided statute, never your memorized common-law version
• Possession versus title separates larceny by trick from false pretenses
• Force or fear, from the person, turns larceny into robbery
• Assault has two theories, and a missed blow counts
• Deadly force may never protect property alone

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Three drivers kill someone on the same road, and one is a murderer, one a manslaughterer, and one guilty of negligent homicide.

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In this episode:

• Reckless means you saw the risk; negligent means you should have
• Malice aforethought needs neither ill will nor advance planning
• Premeditation moves murder up; provocation moves it down
• Words alone are not adequate provocation at common law
• Felony murder has five limits, and merger is the sharpest

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The state proves the act and the intent, and the defendant still walks out with something less than murder, because of one sentence in the statute.

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In this episode:

• Four buckets: justification, excuse, failure of proof, mitigation
• Provocation reduces murder to manslaughter and never acquits
• Voluntary intoxication negates specific intent only
• Deadly force never protects property alone
• Read the provided statute's retreat and deadly-force clauses first

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A driver faints at the wheel and kills a pedestrian, and the crash she never chose is still a crime.

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In this episode:

• A crime needs one voluntary act somewhere in the chain
• Omission is an act only where a legal duty exists
• Recklessness is what you saw; negligence is what you missed
• A statute silent on mental state means recklessness, not strict liability
• Mistake of fact wins only if it cancels the mens rea

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One sign ordinance is unconstitutional and the next one is fine, and the only difference is whether an officer has to read the sign.

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In this episode:

• Content-based means strict scrutiny, content-neutral means the three-part test
• Viewpoint discrimination is forbidden in every forum, without exception
• Unprotected categories are narrow, offensive speech stays fully protected
• Contribution limits are valid, independent expenditure limits are not
• Prior restraints carry a heavy presumption of invalidity

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A city bans killing animals, exempts hunters and exterminators, and fines only the church that sacrifices one.

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In this episode:

• Belief is absolute, religiously motivated conduct is not
• Neutral and generally applicable means rational basis, no exemption
• Secular exemptions in a statute flip it to strict scrutiny
• Establishment is now history and tradition plus coercion
• Excluding a religious recipient from a general benefit violates free exercise

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A county sells a home for $40,000 to collect $15,000 in back taxes, keeps the change, and follows its own statute to the letter the whole way.

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In this episode:

• No taking means no compensation; the analysis stops there
• All economic use means all, not almost all
• Public use means public purpose, and almost never fails
• Ex post facto reaches criminal, retroactive, disadvantaging laws only
• Courts expanding a crime is due process, not ex post facto

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A promotion exam fails one racial group at twice the rate of another, and the Constitution has almost nothing to say about it.

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In this episode:

• Disparate impact alone never triggers heightened scrutiny; you need purpose
• Three tiers, three fixed phrases, and two different burdens of proof
• Race gets strict scrutiny whether it burdens or benefits a group
• Alienage flips to rational basis for federal and political-function classifications
• Fundamental rights are the second road into strict scrutiny

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