2. Model Penal Code Section 2.02.13 3. Willful Ignorance Information Sheet. 14 Assigned Readings: The Business Tort of Fraud: 1. Elements of Fraud handout. 15 2 . Target Media Partners Operating Company, LLC. V. Specialty Marketing Corporation, 177 So.3d 843 (Ala. 2013), cert. denied 135 S. Ct. 1702 (2015). 3. Farmers Insurance Exchange, et al., v. Morris, 228 So.3d 971 (Ala. 2016). Third Writing Assignment: This writing assignment is to be posted on Canvas no later than Sunday, 13 February by 2:00 p.m. 1. How do you think counsel will "prove" state of mind in a criminal trial when a defendant does not testify?16 How will counsel prove it in a civil case when a defendant does testify? Non-Required Perspective Readings: Mens Rea and Hate Speech: 1. Donna P. Gonzolales, Legislative Intent Supports a Patent Knowledge Requirement, 40 Colorado Lawyer 61 (2011). 2. Lorelei D. Ritchie, Is "Willful Blindness" the New Recklessness" After Global-Tech? 21 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 165 (2011). 3. Matthew R. Ginther, et al., The Language of Mens Rea, 67 Vanderbilt Law Review 1327 (2014). 4. Editors, Federal Threats Statute - Mens Rea and the First Amendment - Elonis v. United States, 129 Harvard Law Review 331 (2015). 5. Winnie Chan, A.P. Simester, Four Functions of Mens Rea, 70 Cambridge Law Journal 381 (2011). 6 . Peter Cane, Mens Rea in Tort Law, 20 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 533 (2000). 7. Alexander F. Sarch, Knowledge, Recklessness and the Connection Requirement Between Actus Reus and Mens Rea, 120 Penn State Law Review 1 (2015). 8. Note, Leonid (Lenny) Traps, "Knowingly" Ignorant: Mens Rea Distribution in Federal Criminal Law After Flores-Figueroa, 112 Columbia Law Review 628 (2012). 9 . David Welkowitz, Willfulness, 79 Albany Law Review 509 (2016). 10. Comment, Misty D. Shannon, The Willfulness Requirement: A Chameleon in the Legal Arena, 60 Louisiana Law Review 563 (2000). 11. R. George Wright, Objective and Subjective Tests in the Law, 16 University of New Hampshire