Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.jone-system.com!mmcatv.co.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Killer father gets 5 years for son's brutal death Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:02:55 +0900 Lines: 40 Message-ID: <1c5fg0hkfrf1ico8k6t3ekhlp1s9g4ur5e@4ax.com> References: <73fde4f0.0407260927.49162396@posting.google.com> <4105AE44.5030509@yahoo.com> <001cg09a86ln1tp9u278dbp3t9m5lb36dh@4ax.com> <5tfcg0da028u1j3n4n744b7v12s53br0h9@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de khnTdDlAHqg1DgCVq9eNXQiFV289qsiWeqspTiHiUqX03dM1M= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:15809 On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:44:17 +0900, Raj Feridun brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: >On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:29:46 +0900, Michael Cash > wrote: > >>>He accidentally picked his son up and bodyslammed him, thus murdering >>>him. > >>Yeah, I got that part. But the prime component of a murder charge is >>intent (殺意). No intent = no murder. So was he actually convicted on >>the charge of murder? Or was the use of the word "murder" in the >>article attributable to some dumbass reporter who doesn't know the >>fucking difference? > >No, clearly his intent was to get the little runt to shut the hell up >and he achieved this goal quite nicely by murdering him. You can call it murder, and I can call it murder. We can all call it murder. My point was that as far as criminal law is concerned, not every killing is a murder. And if the judge says the father didn't intend to kill, then the prime element of a murder charge is missing. -- Michael Cash "I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of a high school transcript." Dr. Howard Sprague Dean of Admissions Mount Pilot College