application.

The above mental states also work in a hierarchy, with negligence as the lowest mental state and purposefully as the highest: a finding of purposefully/intentional establishes a state of knowingness, recklessness, and negligence; a finding of knowingness establishes a finding of recklessness and negligence, and a finding of recklessness establishes a state of negligence.⁽⁵⁾

The MPC also recognizes culpability not because of a mental state, but for crimes that are legislatively proscribed due to the imposition

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