False accusation leads to tragedy (A question for the forum)

Kansas City Star ^ | 2/15/04 | Timothy Dwyer

[Non-Sequitur]

My question to the forum is this. Since this student's false accusation directly led to the death of Ron Mayfield then shouldn't the student be charged with manslaughter?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Yes, but they won't be.

[ovrtaxt]

Conspiracy and providing false info to the cops, at least.

[skip2myloo]

"Mayfield, 55, who taught English to non-native speakers."

How about deported ??

[jocon307]

"Since this student's false accusation directly led to the death of Ron Mayfield then shouldn't the student be charged with manslaughter?"

I doubt it, but they can certainly be sued, shunned, and hopefully tormented by a life time of guilt.

[e_castillo]

manslaughter?

Yes but doubtful.

[mrs. a]

I doubt that a student who would make such a false accusation in the first place would have a very well-developed sense of guilt.

[PackerBoy]

Lawyer here: No. But he could be charged with maing a false police report, if he made a police report. Very unlikely, though. This is tragic, but Mayfield had no faith, as is apparently the case with many who commit suicide.

[nuconvert]

no

[bvw]

directly led to the death of Ron Mayfield

No, amigo-te, it was Mayfield's indulgence of vanity that brought he, himself, the loser and coward, to kill himself.

Of course in the United States of Victimology, 2003, Mr. Mayfield is an excellent candidate for President!

In fact, let us award him a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with V, and two or three Purple Hearts and make him an adored Senator.

[steplock]

I would venture to say that a person does NOT commit suicide unless he has one HELL of a guilty concience. If the excuse is "he was mentally unbalanced" makes this person even more of a hazard to scholl children.

That one accusation may have been untrue (or exagerrated) but something drove this guy to the jump and it wasn't this one incident.

Since he is dead, there will be no more investigation to see why.

I do not feel sorry for those who would kill themselves - Was he a member of ELF or ALF or the Sierra Clib also?

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[Non-Sequitur]

Not even involuntary manslaughter? The student's actions were directly responsible for the man's death. Isn't there some sort of legal trick question about a man jumping off a building and who gets shot on the way down? Doesn't the answer to that result in charges for the shooter?

[skip2myloo]

Missouri elected a dead man to the Senate -- why not Virginia ??

Mayfield would be a damn sight better than RINO Warner.

[steplock]

please excuse my dyslexic fingers ...

scholl = school Clib = Club

(for you perfectionist who never mistype anything)

[abclily]

He had no faith in our judicial system. Any wonder?

[bvw]

His decaying body would make hime immune to political corruption, true.

[Mr. Mojo]

Strange, considering his innocence, that he didn't fight for justice rather than resort to this monumentally selfish act. Contemptible, really.

[Non-Sequitur]

I would venture to say that a person does NOT commit suicide unless he has one HELL of a guilty concience. If the excuse is "he was mentally unbalanced" makes this person even more of a hazard to scholl children.

I'm sorry but I think that's nonsense. A man works his whole life, builds his reputation based on his character, and sees all that he has worked for destroyed in an instant by a malicious accusation that he knows will be impossible to overcome, regardless of the police findings? No matter what there will be those, like yourself, who believe that where there was smoke then there should have been fire. So his entire life's work is trashed, his name smeared, his sense of honor impinged. And you can't see how someone might take their own life under those circumstances?

[Mr. Mojo]

it was Mayfield's indulgence of vanity that brought he, himself, the loser and coward, to kill himself.

Precisely.