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• Title: Lex Sportiva: Thoughts Towards a Criminal Law of Competitive Contact.
• Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
• Release Date : January 22, 2006
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 311 KB

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Abstract It sometimes happens that athletes fall to injury rather than superior play. At what point should the criminal law come into play? In a first round National Football League playoff game last season, The Cincinnati Bengals' hopes ended on the second play of the game after the opening kick off, when Pittsburgh Steeler defensive tackle Kimo von Oelhoffen Pittsburgh viciously tackled Cincinnati Bengal quarterback Carson Palmer by bending his leg left against the knee joint in such a way as to tear the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in Palmer's left knee. Palmer left the field on a stretcher. Should von Oelhoffen's hit on Palmer be regarded as an act of criminal misconduct?

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