David Had Just Finished Cleaning His Gun on His Front

question 22

Essay

David had just finished cleaning his gun on his front porch. He walked inside to throw his rag away when the next door neighbor's 5-year-old son walked over, picked up the gun, and shot himself. The boy died within minutes. What is the rule for depraved heart murder? Should David be found guilty of depraved heart murder? Why or why not? Use examples from your readings to support your answer.

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Definitions:

Financial Leverage

Financial leverage is the use of borrowed funds to increase an investment's potential return, which also increases the risk of loss.

Dividend Discount Model

A method of valuing a company's stock price by using predicted dividends and discounting them back to present value.

Myron Gordon

An economist best known for developing the Gordon Growth Model, which is used to determine the intrinsic value of a stock based on a future series of dividends that grow at a constant rate.

Burton Malkiel

An American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street."