Showing posts with label Intent to Kill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intent to Kill. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2007

When the Police Reloads, does that constitute an intent to kill?

TwitThis

Why was the officer who reloaded his gun only charged
with Manslaughter
and NOT murder?

I have posted the NY Penal Code Definitions below.

125.25 Murder in the second degree.
A person is guilty
of murder in the second degreewhen:
1. With intent to
cause the death of another person, he causes the
death
of such person or of a third person; except that in any

prosecution under this subdivision, it is an affirmative
defense that:


125.20
Manslaughter in the first degree.
A person is guilty of manslaughter in the first
degree when:1. With intent to cause serious physical
injury to anotherperson, he caus
es the death of such
person or of a third person; or
125.15 Manslaughter in the second degree.
A person is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree
when:
1. He recklessly
causes the death of another person;



125.10 Criminally negligent homicide. A person is guilty of
criminally negligent homicide when, with
criminal negligence,
he causes the death of another person.
Criminally
negligent homicide is a class E fel
ony.


Michael Oliver, 35, is the officer that fired his
pistol 31 times.
He is the one that reloaded.
Does reloading constitute an intent to kill?


I.Think.So.

However, I couldn't prove it beyond a
reasonable doubt.

Therefore, I, as the prosecutor, would go
for Man 2 as well.
I have found some interesting
deadly force links.


White people, popo and Diallo.
Ed Gordon on deadly force.

The Washington post on deadly force.


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Reloading Constitutes an Intent to Kill.

DISCLAIMER::The popo photo above was included
sheerly for irony purposes.
Not for the purposes of encouraging violence against popo.
I took for photo at the Lafayette station C train stop last week.
For the record, I found the ad as pictured.

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