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> 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 th
by 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...