Anyone convicted of such an action would be guilty of a crime ranging from a fourth-degree to a first-degree felony.

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Senator STEVENS: It may be that what we've done leaves an impression we've done something wrong, but you have to make up your mind you're doing something wrong, you have to have an intention to do something wrong to really be guilty of a crime.

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Most controver sially, Labour would abolish the legal doctrine of doli incapax, which presumes, unless it is proven otherwise, that a child below the age of 14 does not know the difference between right and wrong and so cannot be found guilty of a crime.

ECONOMIST: Young offenders

This holds that, unless proven otherwise, children below the age of 14 do not know the difference between right and wrong, and so cannot be found guilty of a crime.

ECONOMIST: Youth crime

The report said Blagojevich did not need to be found guilty of a crime for the House to impeach him.

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The Illinois committee's report points out that Blagojevich does not need to be found guilty of a crime for the House to impeach him.

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Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native who was raised by a local family in Perugia, was the first to be found guilty of the crime in a fast-track trial in 2008.

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Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken after its owner has been found guilty in a court of law, with civil forfeiture, owners need not be charged with or convicted of a crime to lose homes, cars, cash or other property.

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