Let me guess, you spent a few years as a lawyer? Or maybe a Latin teacher?
Kennedy left a woman to die and did nothing to help her or try to summon help. You don't think there is any culpability there? Oh, yea, I forgot, he was a Kennedy, and we all know they live by different laws. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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:303199 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
