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Most crimes require that "criminal intent" must be proven before the accused can be found guilty of the defined crime. However, there are federal and state statutes that define certain unintended conduct as a crime. Examples of situations where a defendant may be accused of a "nonintent crime" or "strict liability crime" would likely include all of the following except.

A neighbor threatens to expose another person's extramarital affair to that person's employer and family members unless that person pays the neighbor $$10,000.$

An occupational injury at a construction site cause by a company's lax enforcement of federal and state worker safety regulations.

When a person who is driving an automobile over the speed limit kills or seriously injures a pedestrian who is legally crossing a street

A retail store that sells alcohol to a minor because cashier does not effectively check for legal age identification.

A company that recklessly allows an industrial factory it owns to spill toxic waste into a public waterway.