How about "murderer of James Brady?"
When Brady died in 2014, his death was ruled a homicide, caused by the gunshot wound he received in 1981.
Hinkley was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but that was for the assassination attempt and before Brady died. I suppose it's double jeopardy to try Hinkley now for the homicide of Brady because it resulted from the same act, but let's at least call him a murderer and not just a would-be assassin.
-PJ
“When Brady died in 2014, his death was ruled a homicide, caused by the gunshot wound he received in 1981.”
Political grandstanding. To be homicide, you have to die within a year of the battery, and from the injury or its complication.
The law doesn’t work like that. If you shoot me, and I die 33 years later, it isn’t homicide. I have to die within a year in most all cases, and it has to be from the wound or its direct complications.
For your theory to work, every aggravated battery would become a homicide case as soon as the victim passes away decades later.
The would be like getting hit by a beer bottle over the head on VE day, dying of a stroke in 1978, and deciding its a homicide. Take the emotion out and no, Brady wasn’t murdered.