Comments on: Avenging Henry http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172 Addled thoughts of a quality assurance dope Fri, 18 May 2012 09:49:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Peter http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9448 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:52:20 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9448 The question is whether the attackers could be convicted of murder, even if they get caught. It might depend on whether the main cause of death was the assault or the subsequent methadone overdose. The question is whether the attackers could be convicted of murder, even if they get caught. It might depend on whether the main cause of death was the assault or the subsequent methadone overdose.

]]> by: trumwill http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9449 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:53:44 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9449 I would imagine that, if apprehended and unable to plead innocence that they will make just that argument. Maybe the lawyers can chime in here. I am under the impression that the prosecutors have leeway here if they can demonstrate that the death would not have occurred but for the assault and that death was forseeable from the assault. Sorta like if someone has a heart attack during a stick-up. I would imagine that, if apprehended and unable to plead innocence that they will make just that argument.

Maybe the lawyers can chime in here. I am under the impression that the prosecutors have leeway here if they can demonstrate that the death would not have occurred but for the assault and that death was forseeable from the assault. Sorta like if someone has a heart attack during a stick-up.

]]> by: web http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9452 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:12:07 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9452 Doesn't matter. The thugs can still be charged with murder: the beating is a "proximate cause", and the methadone OD (an "intervening cause") still does not remove them from liability. Only if there were a "superseding cause" would they be able to absolve any portion of liability. Reference: http://law.jrank.org/pages/8784/Negligence-Intervening-Cause.html Doesn’t matter. The thugs can still be charged with murder: the beating is a “proximate cause”, and the methadone OD (an “intervening cause”) still does not remove them from liability.

Only if there were a “superseding cause” would they be able to absolve any portion of liability.

Reference: http://law.jrank.org/pages/8784/Negligence-Intervening-Cause.html

]]> by: Kirk http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9464 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:46:22 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9464 Situations like this make me wonder: what would criminals do with their time if drugs were legal? Situations like this make me wonder: what would criminals do with their time if drugs were legal?

]]> by: anonymous http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9481 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:45:18 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/2172#comment-9481 Thing is that the "witnesses", the potential perpetrators etc. all know each other (probably...) so I don't see the problem in the investigation. Lack of funds? give me a break. It s a life we are talking about.... Thing is that the “witnesses”, the potential perpetrators etc. all know each other (probably…) so I don’t see the problem in the investigation. Lack of funds? give me a break. It s a life we are talking about….

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