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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Link in the post: https://publicola.com/2024/08/09/kevin-dave-officer-who-struck-and-killed-23-year-old-student-is-challenging-his-traffic-ticket/

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Manslaughter. But yeah, fuck this guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Murder. You're not going 75mph in a 25mph zone and trying not to kill people. Doesn't matter whether there was a specific target in mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Murder requires malice (i.e. intent), and you don't meet the standard of intent just by exceeding some level of recklessness/negligence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Driving 75mph in a 25mph zone is malicious and indicates intent to kill people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, that's not how intent works. What it shows is recklessness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe that's not how it works by your definition of intent, but it certainly is how it works in mine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Right, and I'm not a prosecutor so I don't give a fuck about specific legal definitions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If you do it in a car it's all good. Evidently if you get killed by a speeding hunk of metal, it's really important to differentiate between the different sizes.