> Scott wrote: > I think Jayson Williams should have been sent to jail too. What's your point? >
You said, referring to Sen Kennedy, "In my mind, that is killing someone." Thus the basis of your comparison is randomly making up shit that the law, even of time, doesn't agree with. So my point is that your comparison ist koo-koo. A reasonable comparison, keeping your different-legal-era basis, would be Williams since he's both a sports star (as vick is) and he accidentally killed someone as Kennedy did. So if you'd like to be at least somewhat logically cohesive you'd want the Kennedy-Williams comparison. Legally Williams is, thus far, a free man. However, what does the law say about his offense? ------------- Manslaughter is a legal term for the killing of a human being, in a manner considered by law as less culpable than murder. The law generally differentiates between levels of criminal culpability based on the mens rea, or state of mind. This is particularly true within the law of homicide, where murder requires either the intent to kill, a state of mind called malice, or malice aforethought, which may involve an unintentional killing but with a willful disregard for life. -------------- Now, let's review again why your Vick comparison is legally moot: mens rea. "In criminal law, mens rea the Latin term for "guilty mind"[1] is usually one of the necessary elements of a crime. " In the case of both Kennedy and Williams, there was no mens rea. However in the case of Vick there was not only mens rea, but also animus nocendi or the state of mind where Vick was knowingly and intending to cause harm. Thus Vick is guilty of mens rea, animus nocendi cruel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:303197 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
