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   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Obveeus"  wrote in message   
   news:hp4odv$l6k$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >   
   > "catpandaddy"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Obveeus"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> "Apple2Steward"  wrote:   
   >>>> If US law applied, as a conspirator (to steal the chip), Greystone   
   >>>> could be guilty of murder under the felony murder rule.   
   >>>   
   >>> Agreed.  From a legal standpoint, Graystone could be charged with the   
   >>> murder even though he did not request it or sanction it in any way.   
   >>   
   >> That's a bit of a silly law, isn't it?  "I'd really like an ice-cream   
   >> sundae."  "Okay, here ya go.  I was short on money so I had to kill the   
   >> proprietor of the olde shoppe.  Oh, if the badges knock on your door,   
   >> it's just to take you into custody for putting a chain of events into   
   >> action which eventually led to murder."   
   >   
   > If the person that wants the ice-cream tells the other person to steal it,   
   > then yes, the resulting murder can be charged back to them.  Just asking   
   > for an ice-cream is not the same as asking for the ice-cream to be stolen.   
      
   Good, that makes more sense.   
      
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