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Does a life sentence end if you briefly die? Inmate says yes, but Iowa court says no
Miami Herald ^
| 11/08/19
| CHACOUR KOOP
Posted on 11/08/2019 3:19:15 PM PST by Libloather
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He has a point. Well, he did, while dead. Now he doesn't.
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
And what about multiple life sentences? You’d think they’d have to specify that.
To: Libloather
If he is undead, we should drive a stake through his heart.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:21:34 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:26:13 PM PST
by
redshawk
( I want my red balloon. https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE)
To: Libloather
Hey, a silly legal argument like this aint a bad idea when youre serving a live sentence. LOL.
I should be freed from prison, your Honor ... because Im now dead. Dead tired, that is.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:26:21 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
To: Libloather
A life sentence should be an automatic DNR.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:28:10 PM PST
by
TheDon
(MAGA!)
To: Libloather
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.
To: Libloather
I heard that he had a “Do NOT Resuscitate” condition in his health records at the prison.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:30:02 PM PST
by
Mark
(Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
To: rightwingcrazy
What about reincarnation? Multiple life sentences might be applicable then.
To: Libloather
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.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:30:29 PM PST
by
Redcitizen
(Tagline not secure.)
To: Libloather
If he is alive he needs to stay in prison until the person he beat to death returns from the dead.
If he is dead he should be buried or cremated.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:33:44 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
To: lee martell
Unless there was a death certificate issued, he was never dead in any way that would stand up in a court of law.
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.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:34:19 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
To: butlerweave
Mostly dead is not dead.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.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:36:15 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: Libloather
To: Redcitizen
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
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:36:51 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
To: Libloather
“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
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:39:12 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Larry Lucido
What about reincarnation? Multiple life sentences might be applicable then. 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...."
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:39:17 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: Redcitizen
The show isn't over ten minutes in because a commercial comes on! The show is over when its over. The sentence doesn't say your life has to be uninterrupted either. The totality of this guy's life includes the period before AND after intermission.
To: Libloather
Does he have a life now? If so, he is still serving his life sentence. Case closed.
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:47:39 PM PST
by
ZinGirl
(Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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