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...it seems to me this idiot got what he deserved.

I agree. I’m just arguing a legal technicality. In layman’s terms, second degree murder means you did it on purpose. 1st degree murder means you did it on purpose and it was pre-meditated.

Generally speaking...

16 posted on 10/03/2014 11:26:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)

I hear you and am sure there’ll be an appeal or appeals.

I don’t know that this idiot was as bad as the Knoller woman in the San Francisco mauling.

See post #17.

21 posted on 10/03/2014 11:38:48 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)

I agree. I’m just arguing a legal technicality. In layman’s terms, second degree murder means you did it on purpose. 1st degree murder means you did it on purpose and it was pre-meditated. Generally speaking...

What would you call it if I wired my front doorknob with 10,000 volts, then hung a sign there saying: WARNING! HIGH-VOLTAGE! LETHAL DANGER! DO NOT TOUCH!

Would I be guilty of murder if someone - a competent adult who could read and understand the sign - nevertheless scoffed and grabbed that doorknob?

Or would I be guilty only of Manslaughter?

How about if I set up the high-voltage rig INSIDE my house - so that only someone who broke down the door illegally would be zapped?

Regards,

27 posted on 10/03/2014 12:00:34 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)

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