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"But nobody reasonably expects a verbal accusation will kill anyone." It was a foreseeable consequence of the officer's actions. Thus intent could be imputed.
by jdkee 7y ago
"But nobody reasonably expects a verbal accusation will kill anyone."
It was a foreseeable consequence of the officer's actions. Thus intent could be imputed. Therefore, it could reasonably be construed as an intentional homicide i.e. murder.
- close04 7y ago> It was a foreseeable consequence of the officer's actions. The only case that I know of when words lead to suicide for one and manslaughter conviction for the other is when one urged the other to do it [0]. And it still wasn't murder. This feels like arguing for the sake of arguing. There's no way a reasonable judge and jury would ever consider this to be murder. And it would be a very dangerous precedent to set. Investigators, as far as I've heard, have free reign to lie during interrogations in order to extract more information, and will eventually even have an innocent person as a suspect. Regular people might say something to someone who was more sensitive than they expected. [0] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/06/16/woman-who-sent-texts-urging-suicide-guilty-manslaughter/403330001/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/06/16/woman-w...