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The hitman was a conman for a murder on a fictitious person. While he fully believed he was committing a real assassination, you can't convict people for killin
by alt187 2y ago
The hitman was a conman for a murder on a fictitious person. While he fully believed he was committing a real assassination, you can't convict people for killing imaginary people.
- croes 2y agoThis doesn’t sound like an imaginary person https://www.vice.com/en/article/murdered-silk-road-employee-sentenced-to-time-served/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/murdered-silk-road-employee-...
- px43 2y agoI'm not convinced that you looked at the article you linked. > That’s because he was the Silk Road employee implicated in an elaborate, and fake, murder-for-hire scheme, created in part by a corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent.
- croes 2y agoThe murder was fake not the murder order. >DPR contacted one of his trusted drug dealer contacts, Nob, and asked him to kill Green for $40,000. Shortly after, Nob sent DPR photos of Green covered in Campbell’s Chicken & Stars soup and victim of an apparent asphyxiation, to prove the murder had been carried out. > Unbeknown to DPR, Nob was no drug dealer. In fact, Nob was Carl Mark Force IV, the very same DEA agent who had arrested Green.
- alt187 2y agoThere weee two murder for hire. Look up the story wirh FriendlyChemist.
- croes 2y agoBut does it matter if he ordered a real murder? The trial for the real one was scrapped because of his other convictions.
- alt187 2y agoBoth were fake. One was a con by the DEA and the other one a con by a single guy posing as executioner, victim and a slew of other colorful characters.
- croes 2y agoThe DEA murder was fake but not his order of the murder. The man just didn’t die because the killer was a DEA agent in reality. That’s still a felony.
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- wahnfrieden 2y agoYou can convict for murder for hire in that circumstance.