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It might protect you from breaking the heart attack victim's ribs while delivering CPR, but it won't protect you from inducing a heart attack in the bank teller
by ctdonath 12y ago
It might protect you from breaking the heart attack victim's ribs while delivering CPR, but it won't protect you from inducing a heart attack in the bank teller you tried to feloniously rob.
- mod 12y agoWhy would it protect you from that? You aren't trying to help the bank teller. This guy tried to help his buddy. He should be charged with what he actually is responsible for. His buddy sealed his own fate.
- Someone 12y agoI think the OP was thinking of the attempt to save his buddy who was shot. I can't see how that was being a good Samaritan; that act wasn't about saving his life, it was about keeping him out of the hands of the police. If he asks that in general, I would think being a Good Samaritan would take precedence over lots of crimes. For example: speeding or driving through a red light on your way to a hospital with a heavily wounded passenger, or jumping into a pool where it is forbidden to swim to save someone from drowning IMO should not be punished. Felonies may be different. For example, pulling a huge man in the line of fire to save two others? Highly questionable, IMO. On the other hand, this article seems to indicate that pulling someone from the ledge he wants to jump of or even preventing someone from falling out of a tree legally is kidnapping. If so, I would hope one can't go to prison for such acts.