Culpable Mental States
With intent, a person acts intentionally as to the nature of their conduct or to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result.
For knowledge, a person acts knowingly with respect to the nature of his or her conduct or to circumstances surrounding his conduct when he is aware of the nature of his conduct or that the circumstances exist. A person acts with knowledge, with respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result.
To define recklessness, a person is reckless, with when he is aware of but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature that its disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances.
