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A comment on College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (2014). Parent comment

Re:College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (2... by reso on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:56AM (#11570141)
As a clear counterexample: you can certainly commit negligent homicide without intending to.
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Re:College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (2... by anu_gupta on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:56AM (#11570340)
Negligent homicide is not murder.
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Re:College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (2... by reso on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @05:15AM (#11570404)
The language my top comment used was "homocide" and "negligent homocide" while the responder changed it to "murder". The point is that in the view of the justice system, sometimes it doesn't matter if you meant to kill someone or not--you still killed someone.
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Re:College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (2... by anu_gupta on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @05:33AM (#11570482)
It does matter. The charges are different, the sentencing is different.
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Re:College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (2... by DanBC on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:56AM (#11570789)
Yes, only one of your three examples was correct.

Homicide is so broad it's meaningless.

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Re:College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (2... by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:47AM (#11572853)
Even with negligent homicide the perpetrator's mindset is still taken into account. It is only negligent homicide if they should reasonably have known that their actions could cause the death.
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