4 ms·
By that logic also: "If I'm God, and we agree that I will kill everyone with my God powers, but it turns out (unbeknownst to either of us) that I'm not God, th
by emilfihlman 6y ago
By that logic also:
"If I'm God, and we agree that I will kill everyone with my God powers, but it turns out (unbeknownst to either of us) that I'm not God, that's still conspiracy to commit murder."
Promising impossibility is not a conspiracy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladviceofftopic/comments/6le3hy/magic_intent_and_murder/ https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladviceofftopic/comments/6le3hy...
- ColanR 6y agoGiven that someone has actually been convicted of attempted murder by voodoo doll (ridiculous as that is), that reddit discussion sounds a bit like wishful thinking. https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2004/dec/09/attempted-voodoo-first-degree/ https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2004/dec/09/attempted-vo...
- emilfihlman 6y agoA) that sounds like a legend and b) low level judges are not the measure of law.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoI believe that what you've linked to is legally incorrect. Refer to, e.g. United States vs. Thomas: https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-united-states-v-thomas https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-u... ... which is an actual appeal court decision. The defendants were at a bar. A drunken woman collapsed. The defendants put her in their car, took her home, and had sex with her while they believed she was unconscious. In fact, the woman had died at the bar, and they had been having sex with a corpse. They could not be convicted of rape, but they could be convicted of attempted rape because they believed the woman was alive at the time. Being factually mistaken about the possibility of a crime is not a defense to a charge of attempt, conspiracy etc.
- jacobush 6y agoThat’s slightly charitable. They believed they raped a woman, but they actually desecrated a corpse.