Chapter 4: The Elements of a Crime
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Thus, an Olympic swimmer may be deemed by the community as a shameful coward, or worse, for not rescuing a drowning child in the neighbor’s pool, but she is not a criminal.
—State ex rel. Kuntz v. Thirteenth Jud. Dist., cited in Section 4 “Duty to Act Based on a Special Relationship”