Murder seems like an over-reach by the prosecutors.
Negligent homicide. Maybe.
My guess is that murder is being used due to the allegation of hiding paperwork, plea down to negligent homicide?
Sometimes schlitt happens. Sad but it happens. Liable on a civil basis but not on a criminal basis.
At their ages, it will not make a whole lot of difference which. They’ll spend the rest of their lives in prison...................
I don’t get it either. Murder? I bet a jury says NYET! to that. I would, sad as the boy’s death was.
How many hundreds of thousands of people rode this slide without problems?
I’ve been on similar rides, and it sounds like speed and centrifugal force pushed a light, young boy off the main tube.
Yes, there is some design flaw and negligence, but murder is far-fetched.
Certainly can't be a 1st degree murder charge, any intentional murder that is willful and premeditated with malice aforethought.
2nd degree murder is defined as any intentional murder with malice aforethought, but is not premeditated or planned.
Manslaughter, the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder.
No way he designed this ride to watch people get murdered from it. Unless they are basing it upon the fact that they hid the previous 13 injuries. We don't have enough information as to the degree of severity of those injuries. So that may be the reason behind a charge of murder.
So is the attempt to hide the previous 13 injuries, regardless of severity considered to be malice of afterthought? I guess it must be.
But even still manslaughter seems to be the appropriate charge in this case, not murder, because murder was never the intent. Without that, malice of afterthought is not even relevant. I agree with you 100%, definite over reach by the prosecutor. If he proceeds down that path he may just see his case being lost, unless the jury is able to consider manslaughter charges.