• Causation, the requirement that the defendant is responsible for the harm, applies only to result crimes.

• Factual causation (or “cause in fact”) requires that there can be no criminal liability for a resulting harm

“unless it can be shown that the defendant’s conduct was the cause in fact of the prohibited result.”

• Legal causation, or “proximate” causation, is concerned with whether it is fair to hold the defendant responsible for the crime.

Questions:-

1. Compare and contrast factual and legal causation.