{"data":{"id":"us-gu/9-gca-4.30","jurisdiction":"us-gu","citation":"9 GCA § 4.30","heading":"Culpability Defined.","body":"(a) A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to his conduct or to a result thereof when it is his conscious purpose to engage in the conduct or cause the result.\n(b) A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to his conduct or to attendant circumstances when he is aware of the nature of his conduct or that those circumstances exist. A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is practically certain to cause the result.\n(c) A person acts recklessly, or is reckless, with respect to attendant circumstances or the result of his conduct when he acts in awareness of a substantial risk that the circumstances exist or that his conduct will cause the result and his disregard is unjustifiable and constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in the situation.\n(d) A person acts with criminal negligence, or is criminally negligent, with respect to attendant circumstances or the result of his conduct when he should be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or that his conduct will cause the result and his failure to be aware of the risk constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in the situation.","path":["Title 9: Crimes and Corrections","Chapter 4: General Principles of Liability"],"source_url":"https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/9gc004.pdf","current_through":"P.L. 38-133 (June 4, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-27T02:44:58Z","sha256":"c4461087aec75081767978e1e88388ebb811c135699ec76b7a1089b64999df5d","source_id":"us-gu","stale":false,"prev":"us-gu/9-gca-4.25","next":"us-gu/9-gca-4.35"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}