stjames1_53 (08-04-2017)
‘There is no God but Resister and Refugee is his messenger’.
Book of Democrat Things, Chapter 1:1
Peter1469 (06-18-2017)
She was a minor. This was juvenile court.
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
Peter1469 (06-18-2017)
Seems like the correct verdict.
As for future precedent, online trolls are going to have to stop telling other people to kill themselves. I do not think that is a bad thing.
Sentenced to a minimum of 15 months imprisonment.
It will be appealed. Likely the "pretrial ruling, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court approved of the prosecutor’s “killing words” expansion of the crime of involuntary manslaughter", but also on free speech rights to the Supreme Court. See Michelle Carter Suicide Case Underlines Growing Legal Battles Over Speech Crimes.
I'm divided on this. I can agree it was abhorent she encouraged suicide. But I think the verdict stretches the law and will affect similar cases of word crimes (see link).
Peter1469 (08-04-2017)
first appearance in court
last day in court
For waltky: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
- Thucydides
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote" B. Franklin
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
resister (08-04-2017)