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The president of a pharmaceutical firm received a report from his testing bureau that a manufactured lot of the firmÕs anticancer prescription medication was well below strength. Concerned about being able to fulfill contractual commitments, the president instructed his staff to deliver the defective lot. A cancer patient who had been maintained on the drug died shortly after beginning to take the defective pills. Medical evidence established that the patient would have lived longer had the drug been at full strength, but would have died before long in any event. The president was convicted of murder. On appeal, he argues that his conviction should be reversed. Should the conviction be reversed?

category

law

options

  1. Yes, because the president was merely trying to fulfill contractual obligations.
  2. No, because the intentional delivery of adulterated or mislabeled drugs gives rise to strict criminal liability.
  3. No, because the president's actions directly contributed to the patient's premature death.
  4. Yes, because the president was not aware of the specific patient who would consume the defective drug.
  5. No, because the jury could have found that the presidentÕs conduct was sufficiently reckless to constitute murder.
  6. No, because the president violated his duty of care towards the patient.
  7. Yes, because distribution of the defective lot was only a regulatory offense.
  8. No, because the president knowingly delivered the defective drugs which directly led to the patient's death.
  9. Yes, because the cancer, not the presidentÕs conduct, was the proximate cause of death of the patient.
  10. Yes, because the patient would have died regardless of the drug's effectiveness.

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1777
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default--test--1777
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1
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