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Many criminal cases require establishing intent. Pranks may be harmful as you allude to, but the intent still matters.
by lr4444lr 5y ago
Many criminal cases require establishing intent. Pranks may be harmful as you allude to, but the intent still matters.
- chrisseaton 5y agoHow does that work? Can you murder someone for a prank and say your intent was just a prank so it was fine?
- lr4444lr 5y agoIntent separates murder from manslaughter in most states in thr USA, so yeah, a death from a prank is tangible different.
- chrisseaton 5y agoBut they did intend to disrupt the systems in this case. The impact was their exact intent.
- kube-system 5y agoWhen people say "establishing intent" in terms of criminal cases, this is usually a shorthand for something more specifically defined in the law, like "intent to do harm" or something. To use the murder example again: many people who commit manslaughter have all kinds of various intentions. The one murder is concerned with is whether or not they specifically had the intent to kill the person. "Establishing intent" in this scenario is specifically regarding that one intent. Not any intent.