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Investigating, apprehending, charging, and trying suspected offenders is regulated by the law of felony procedure. The paradigm case of a criminal offense lies in the proof, past cheap doubt, that a person is responsible of two issues. First, the accused must commit an act which is deemed by society to be criminal, or actus reus . Second, the accused will have to have the requisite malicious intent to do a criminal act, or mens rea . Criminal systems of the civil law tradition distinguish between intention within the broad sense , and negligence. Negligence does not carry felony accountability except …