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Thats for financial liability. What if the machine makes a crime?

• jacquesm 10y ago
  Many corporations have been found guilty of crimes. Rarely did an officer of those companies get sent to jail, most of the times even though a person committing that same crime would end up in jail officers of the company are not charged and instead the corporation pays a fine. More data on this subject than you can absorb in a few days: http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/plea_agreements/home.php?c=3&d=0 http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/plea_agreements/home.php...
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    Aside from discretionary charging, it's fundamentally possible for a company to be guilty of a crime without any individual officer being guilty of that crime.
    • jacquesm 10y ago
      Yes. That's a bit paradoxical but correct and one of the ways in which corporate crimes end up being dealt with differently than crimes committed by natural persons.