In which legal context is "mens rea" required?

Mens Rea (menz ray-ah), Latin for "guilty mind," is an essential component of many crimes. To prove culpability, the prosecution must establish that the defendant was aware that their conduct was illegal. As the eminently quotable Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once put it, “even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.”

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