Rush IS WRONG:
In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is an action where a defendant acts with a “depraved indifference” to human life and where such act results in a death. In a depraved-heart murder, defendants commit an act even though they know their act runs an unusually high risk of causing death or serious bodily harm to a person. If the risk of death or bodily harm is great enough, ignoring it demonstrates a “depraved indifference” to human life and the resulting death is considered to have been committed with malice aforethought. In some states, depraved-heart killings constitute second-degree murder,[3] while in others, the act would be charged with varying degrees of manslaughter.
If no death results, such an act would generally constitute reckless endangerment (sometimes known as “culpable negligence”) and possibly other crimes, such as assault.
I understand you we should not be so callous But Jeez Let it lay where it lays
Thank you for clarifying this. I agree that he was wrong. When we know of someone who is contemplating suicide, we help them to get counseling, to do something which will stop them from doing it. Of course it is wrong to goad the person into completion of the act. The judge, in his decision, said that the young man had gotten out of his vehicle, evidently he was having trouble breathing with the carbon monoxide, and she told him to get back in. There are a lot of text messages, the phone call, etc, where she could have notified the police, or done something to remedy the sad situation and save his life. She chose to tell him to get back in and, in his state of carbon monoxide poisoning, couldn’t think clearly. She called a friend and told her that he had died and related her part in it. She knew herself.