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Model Penal Code<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. A criminal code drafted and proposed by the American Law Institute, adopted in 1972, and used as the basis for criminal-law revision by many states.<\/strong> \u2014 Abbr. MPC<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A proposed criminal code prepared jointly by the Commission on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from Sanford H. Kadish’s<\/span> Codifies for the Criminal Law: Wechsler’s Predecessors<\/em><\/a>, 78 Colum. L. Rev. 1098, 1144 (1978):<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “The [Model Penal] Code stimulated a movement for legislative criminal law reform of unprecedented scope.\u00a0 The latest Annual report of the American Law Institute reveals that over thirty states have adopted revised criminal codes since the Model Penal Code started reporting its drafts; six states and Congress have revisions completed awaiting enactment, and three states have revisions under way.\u00a0 In very few instances has any jurisdiction adopted the Code substantially whole.\u00a0 But in virtually no case has the revision escaped the impact of the Code’s formulations.\u00a0 As a result the Model Penal Code has by now permeated and transformed the criminal law of the country.<\/span>“<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0Deluxe Tenth Edition\u00a0by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner<\/a>. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2<\/b><\/span><\/strong>]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/b><\/span><\/strong>Legal Assistant Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]: Sanford H. Kadish’s Codifies for the Criminal Law: Wechsler’s Predecessors<\/em><\/a>, 78 Colum. L. Rev. 1098, 1144 (1978).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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