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Old May 2, 2009 | 7:09 pm
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law dawg
 
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Originally Posted by RichardKenner
I'm not sure what "properly" means, but the above is false in terms of the law as it's applied in the US. You only need to have intent to do the thing that's against the law; you need not know that it's against the law. It's illegal to juggle without a license in Hood River, OR. If some visitor to the city juggles, they've violated that law as long as they intended to juggle. The fact that they didn't know it was illegal (friends of mine who grew up there know it), is irrelevant.
Actually, as a rule, you need the intent to commit the act and then the actual committal of the act itself - mens rea and actus reus.
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