Case Study

Did Lennie cause the first officer's death? Distinguish between proximate cause and cause, in fact. Are there any intervening causes? If so, are they superseding?

It can be said that the girl threw the dart in the wrong direction because Lennie tried to distract her by blowing the clown horn, which he usually was his normal routine to distract those playing the game. The other aspect of the case is the fact that the girl was drunk, which might have caused the girl to throw the dart in a wrong direction, which caused the death of the officer. So, it ...