Write a scenario where a defendant would NOT be considered legally responsible for a victim’s injury or death that results from a responsive intervening act. Be sure to indicate the factual cause and the proximate cause. Now write a scenario where the defendant would be held legally liable for a responsive intervening act. Why would the defendant be held liable in the second scenario?
What will be an ideal response?
Same as coincidental intervening acts, liability would depend on whether the responsive intervening act is foreseeable or unforeseeable.
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