[PUGACHEV]

I am afraid you don’t understand murder. Where is the mitigating circumstance that reduces this to manslaughter? The victim is fifty feet away and still running when the officer takes deliberate aim and shoots him five times in the back. Premeditation can occur in an instant. I would argue that somewhere between the first and the fifth shot the officer had to reflect on what was happening and make the consioious decision to kill the man. That’s first degree murder.

[IChing]

You just proved that you’re the one who doesn’t have the slightest grasp of the legal definitions involved, and being right now on a fishing trip with my wife and son, I’d better not bother myself to try to lecture you on them. Good luck to you in figuring the precise meanings out.

[X-spurt]

Damn, this sure seems to drag out the purist libertarians!

[driftless2]

First degree murder? That would mean the cop planned to shoot Scott all along. I doubt he would have politely asked Scott to surrender if that were the case.

So Scott resists arrests, grabs the cop's taser, and taser's him, then runs, gets shot by the assaulted cop, and you think that's first degree murder? Sorry.