Comments on: More Fun With Torts http://www.kipesquire.net/2008/07/more-fun-with-torts/ A Stitch in Time Saves Nine ... But Haste Makes Waste Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dolphin http://www.kipesquire.net/2008/07/more-fun-with-torts/comment-page-1/#comment-6593 dolphin Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:48:32 +0000 http://www.kipesquire.net/?p=4345#comment-6593 <em>If someone died from the heat after the suspect cut the power, would that be murder?</em> I don't know enough law to back it up, but my opinion on what SHOULD be is, no, not murder. If an illegal action directly causes a death (ie. he cut down the pole and it fell on someone), I can (maybe) see a murder charge. But when you start stringing out "indirect" causes, I think you're entering into dangerous territory. If he cut down the pole and it caused the power to go out, which caused some restaurants food to go bad (without them noticing) and they served it to a customer, who then got food poisoning and died, is the original pole cutter guilt of murder? If someone died from the heat after the suspect cut the power, would that be murder?

I don't know enough law to back it up, but my opinion on what SHOULD be is, no, not murder. If an illegal action directly causes a death (ie. he cut down the pole and it fell on someone), I can (maybe) see a murder charge. But when you start stringing out "indirect" causes, I think you're entering into dangerous territory. If he cut down the pole and it caused the power to go out, which caused some restaurants food to go bad (without them noticing) and they served it to a customer, who then got food poisoning and died, is the original pole cutter guilt of murder?

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