The Law of Unintendd Consequences

[PhantomTweak]

Or: OOPS! Happy (?!?) Anniversary Chicago??

http://www.wunderground.com/news/day-15-million-balloons-unleashed-total-chaos-cleveland-20140615


Road blockages, closed runways, injured horses (very expensive horses!!) and so on. Big problems but can be dealt with given time and effort by the city's first responders...

How do the organizers and those involved deal with, within themselves, the two human deaths they directly caused?

Just wondering how they all feel to be double murderers?

Pat

[expat]

Is murder not a premeditated crime............

And the City must have given the OK for this along with the aviation authorities to release them...........

Matt

[OldAirmail]

"Murder" usually isn't a term used in courts in the US.

Homicide is what the law & court system use. Homicide is also broken down into different categories. But it does vary state by state.

For instance, if you attacked me with a knife and I fought back with something that I found at the site, say a large rock that killed you via a concussion, I would probably be charged with justifiably homicide and be let go.

There are are a great many circumstances, such as accidental death, where you may be charged with unintended homicide.



Homicide - Definition


One area where the law & I disagree is about attempted murder.

If you try to kill me but I recover, I want you to face something MUCH worse that a few years in prison for being inept.

[Webb]

2013 Florida Statutes 782.04, Murder

782.04 Murder

(1)(a) The unlawful killing of a human being:

1. When perpetrated from a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed or any human being ... is murder in the first degree and constitutes a capital felony;

This is called common law murder.

2. When committed by a person engaged in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, any:

a. Trafficking offense prohibited by s. 893.135(1),
b. Arson,
c. Sexual battery,
d. Robbery,
e. Burglary,
f. Kidnapping ... is murder in the first degree and constitutes a capital felony

This is called felony murder, when a person is killed during the commission of a felony, regardless of whether the perpetrator intended the death.

The balloon case looks like at worst a civil case of negligence.

[Steve M]

There seems to me, that some folks were born and bred to screw up a good day. I mean speaking of the law of unintended consequences specific.
Neighbor decides to get out and mow his lawn= my pet hamster is missing now.
It's actually an interesting topic when you think about it.