Intent is a mental attitude with which an individual acts, and therefore it cannot ordinarily be directly proved but must be inferred from surrounding facts and circumstances. Intent refers only to the state of mind with which the act is done or omitted. It differs from motive, which is what prompts a person to act or to fail to act.
Derrick Todd Lee has been sentenced to death for the first degree murder of LSU grad student Charlotte Murray Pace. It took the jury that convicted Lee for Pace's murder 93 minutes to unanimously decide Lee's fate. Lee is now at Angola State Penitentiary.
Todd Anderson (played by Ethan Hawke) is a close friend of Neil's, and a member of the Dead Poets Society. This is his first year at Welton. Todd is a painfully shy boy, who initially doesn't want to take part in the Dead Poets Society because he thinks it will mean having to read poetry in front of the other boys.he group would gather at an old Indian cave and read poetry, letting the words drip from [their] tongues like honey.. The boys are inspired to form their own Dead Poets Society. One of the boys is Neil Perry (played by Robert Sean Leonard).