Intoxication

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Name some offences that are specific intent?
Murder, GBH with intent, Theft, Robbery, Burglary.
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Name the voluntary intoxication case?
Majewski
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What can involuntary intoxication be used for?
Used for a defence to specific intent offences.
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What can voluntary intoxication not be used for?
Basic intent crimes.
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If D is tried for murder but successfully pleads intoxication what will he be convicted of?
manslaughter.
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If D is tried for S.18 assault but successfully pleads intoxication what will he be convicted of?
S.20 Assault.
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Why is voluntary intoxication not a defence?
Because it is simply the case that intoxication can be evidence supporting a claim of no mens rea.
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The success of D's plea of intoxication will depend on what?
Whether D was voluntarily or involuntarily intoxicated.
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When can involuntary intoxication arise?
Spiked drinks or drugs, effects of medication unexpected or borrowed medication.
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If D took prescribed medication but did not follow he doctors advice D's plea of intoxication will fail, name the case?
Bailey.
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If D states he did not know the strength of his drugs his plea would fail, name the case?
Allen.
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D must provide evidence of intoxication, name the case?
Groark.
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