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2023 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING OFFENSES
- § 201. General purposes.
- § 202. All offenses defined by statute.
- § 203. Principles of construction.
- § 204. Territorial applicability.
- § 205. Time limitations.
- § 206. Method of prosecution when conduct constitutes more than 1 offense.
- § 207. When prosecution is barred by former prosecution for the same offense.
- § 208. When prosecution is barred by former prosecution for different offense.
- § 209. Former prosecution in another jurisdiction; when a bar.
- § 210. Former prosecution before court lacking jurisdiction or when fraudulently procured by defendant.
- § 211. Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities.
- § 212-220. [Reserved.]
- § 221. Principles of definitions.
- § 222. General definitions.
- § 223. Words of gender or number.
- § 224. Valuation of property.
- § 225-230. [Reserved.]
- § 231. Definitions relating to state of mind.
- § 232. Definition relating to elements of offense.
- § 233. Definition and classification of offenses.
- § 234. Definition of terms requiring certain sentences.
- § 235-240. [Reserved.]
- § 241. Conviction to precede punishment.
- § 242. Requirements for criminal liability in general.
- § 243. Definition of “voluntary act.”
- § 244-250. [Reserved.]
- § 251. Proof of state of mind required unless otherwise provided; strict liability.
- § 252. Prescribed state-of-mind requirement applies to all material elements.
- § 253. Substitutes for criminal negligence, recklessness and knowledge.
- § 254. Conditional intention.
- § 255. Knowledge of high probability.
- § 256-260. [Reserved.]
- § 261. Causation.
- § 262. Intentional or knowing causation; different result from that expected.
- § 263. Reckless or negligent causation; different result from that expected or overlooked.
- § 264. Causation in offenses of strict liability.
- § 265-270. [Reserved.]
- § 271. Liability for the conduct of another — Generally.
- § 272. Liability for the conduct of another — No defense.
- § 273. Liability for the conduct of another — Exemption.
- § 274. Offenses involving 2 or more persons; convictions for different degrees of offense.
- § 275. Indictment as principal and conviction as accomplice; indictment as accomplice and conviction as principal.
- § 276-280. [Reserved.]
- § 281. Criminal liability of organizations.
- § 282. Criminal liability of an individual for organizational conduct.
- § 283. Impermissible organizational activity no defense.
- § 284. Definitions relating to organizational liability.
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