Misdemeanor manslaughter? Yea...I dunno why they say "felony murder"? I've never heard of "misdemeanor murder".
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...s-corner-woman-accused-in-traffic-7422773.php Committing a felony is bad. Hope she rots in jail.
Aside from the utter tone deafness of this comment, I also have to say I think responders do a pretty good job of making sure there's a lane open to keep traffic flowing despite having to clean up an accident scene. I think it's pretty amazing, myself, that we routinely investigate and clean up accidents on the freeway while keeping the freeway constantly operational (even if its capacity is somewhat reduced). Murder is the headliner, but I'm sure they'll pin a dozen charges on her in the official indictment. Endangering her children will be on there too. You're right though that they way they wrote the article sounds pretty weird. Murder also sounds a little funny because I would have expected something more like manslaughter. But given the gross negligence she showed in continuing to drive intoxicated even after a previous accident, maybe they feel they can prove enough for murder. Seems like she'll be in prison a long time regardless.
Thanks for that. Funny application of the felony murder construct though. I think the standard situation they're thinking of is something like a felony robbery where the perp shoots the victim to prevent an ID. In this case, she was committing a felony but didn't kill the motorcyclist in order to get away with the original felony. But, whatever, she sounds like a person who is begging for the maximum application of the law.
I probably should have not posted anything. What if some one dies because they shut down the highway and someone couldn't get to the hospital in time? All those people feigning outrage probably don't care about that person who died. If people really cared they might actually want more public transport. Shutting down the the highway for 4 hours isn't bringing them back. If due to the shutdown a million people lost an hour that is a million hours. If one person lives 80 years that is only 700k hours.
Good point. Being stuck behind 1,000,000 cars worth of traffic can be a real pain. Especially considering that the next time that it happens will be the first.
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Felony murder is a common law doctrine. Basically it makes it so.. when an offender kills (regardless of accidentally or without specific intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), he/she can be found guilty of murder (versus manslaughter or second degree murder). The act of committing a dangerous felony is therefore the "intent" required to be found guilty of murder. The purpose of this is to attempt to deter dangerous felonies.
That would just be plain murder. Felony murder is a death occurring while committing a felony, which otherwise would not be treated as murder. So, in your example, killing a victim with motive to not be ID'd is flat out murder. But getting into your car to escape, and subsequently getting into a police chase that ends in an accident that kills someone would be felony murder...because refusal to stop after a felony robbery is another felony. Or simpler, refusal to stop in a stolen vehicle (felony theft) and causing an accident resulting in a death is felony murder. I believe felony arson resulting in the death of a fireman is also felony murder...and anyone else who dies in the fire (whether or not there was intent to kill someone).
No no...it's for the best that you let everyone know how incredibly self absorbed and how much of a sociopath you are.
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