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§32
Title 17-A: MAINE CRIMINAL CODE
Part 1: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Chapter 2: CRIMINAL LIABILITY; ELEMENTS OF CRIMES
§34

§33. Result as an element; causation

1.  Unless otherwise provided, when causing a result is an element of a crime, causation may be found when the result would not have occurred but for the conduct of the defendant, operating either alone or concurrently with another cause.  
[PL 2017, c. 432, Pt. C, §1 (NEW).]
2.  In cases in which concurrent causation is generated as an issue, the defendant’s conduct must also have been sufficient by itself to produce the result.  
[PL 2017, c. 432, Pt. C, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 324, §14 (NEW). PL 2017, c. 432, Pt. C, §1 (RPR).
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