Posted on 11/08/2019 3:19:15 PM PST by Libloather
An Iowa inmate claims his life sentence is complete because he already died - but doctors brought him back to life.
An appeals court just ruled thats not how it works.
In 2015, Benjamin Schreiber, 66, collapsed inside his prison cell from septic poisoning after kidney stones caused him to urinate internally, according to an appeals court ruling this week. He was rushed from the Iowa State Penitentiary to the hospital, where doctors revived him five times with adrenaline and repaired his damaged organ.
Three years later, Schreiber sought to be freed when he argued in court that he fulfilled his life sentence after momentarily dying.
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Mostly dead is not dead
And what about multiple life sentences? You’d think they’d have to specify that.
If he is undead, we should drive a stake through his heart.
He’s dead Jim. ....
I should be freed from prison, your Honor ... because Im now dead. Dead tired, that is.
A life sentence should be an automatic DNR.
That law is going to need some tweaking to avoid this challenge in the future. There are numerous methods to revive somebody these days that were never available before.
What about reincarnation? Multiple life sentences might be applicable then.
Hmm. My wholly personal, unqualified non medical and nonlegal opinion says yes, A life sentence ends if you briefly die.
Nothing in the original sentence defines how long you must be dead.
If he is dead he should be buried or cremated.
Do you think a life insurance company would ever pay out a settlement to this guys family if he had a $1 million insurance policy and he died for five minutes? LOL.
Does anyone remember Man-Made Monster (1941) a horror film from Universal Pictures, starring Lon Chaney, Jr.?
He survived electrocution that killed all the others in a bus accident where a high power line was hit. Then he was impervious to electric shocks.
Amazingly this was recalled in the comedy The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) where Barbara Streisand retells the plot to George Segal. One of my favorite movies.
Right. Maybe the court should just agree with him that his life sentence is over, and then order the court officers to take his carcass into custody so he can be cremated. :-P
“I met one brother. His name was J-Bone. Motherf........ could lift weights. He was in charge. Muscles every-mother.......-where. He was doing a sentence triple life. How in the .... do you do triple life? I mean. That mean if he die and come back he got to go to the penitentiary. Right? Theyll say, F... kindergarten. Get your little ass back in the penitentiary. Mother...... You know what you did last time you was here.”
-Richard Pryor
Good, original post.
Let's hope lawyers do not read FR. "Let's see, my billable hours and legal fees for tracing each incarnation and defending against the sentence for each life restored equals...."
Does he have a life now? If so, he is still serving his life sentence. Case closed.
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