On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:45:50 +0900, Raj Feridun
<rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:02:55 +0900, Michael Cash
><mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:44:17 +0900, Raj Feridun
>><rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> brought down from the Mount tablets
>>inscribed:
>>
>>>On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:29:46 +0900, Michael Cash
>>><mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> 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.
>
>Yes, unfortunately this is the tragic state of the Japanese penal
>codes.

That's not just Japan.
>
>I guess my point is that even if a grown man "accidentally" killed his
>5 year old by slamming his head into the floor that there should be a
>more severe sentence than 5 years as a result. As for murder throw
>away the key.

Murder is 15 to life (or death by hanging), usually with parole in
about 10 years.





--

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