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Old 03-16-2007, 08:31 PM   #1
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So, if I set a machine up to randomly shoot because I like the sound and it happens to kill someone, no crime. Cool.
If you shoot a person trying to rape your wife or kid, is it murder?
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Old 03-16-2007, 08:33 PM   #2
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If you shoot a person trying to rape your wife or kid, is it murder?
Sure. It may be that a jury acquits you because it's justifiable, but it's murder.
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Old 03-16-2007, 08:58 PM   #3
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Sure. It may be that a jury acquits you because it's justifiable, but it's murder.
If you're acquitted, legally it wasn't murder.
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Old 03-17-2007, 09:31 AM   #4
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If you're acquitted, legally it wasn't murder.
Word games. Is killing in war murder? How about political assassination? Capital punishment, abortion, euthanasia, vehicular homicide?

Justifiable homicide is murder - the jury merely felt ok with your murdering ways.
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Old 03-17-2007, 09:34 AM   #5
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Word games. Is killing in war murder? How about political assassination? Capital punishment, abortion, euthanasia, vehicular homicide?
Exactly. Motive counts.
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