Re:Slow-motion replays can distort criminal responsibility
by entropy_ on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @08:48AM
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How violent an action truly is is irrelevant when deciding whether a murder was premeditated(first degree) or not(second degree). If I swing a hammer at a wall and someone happens to be passing by, I hit them in the face and kill them, it's going to look very gruesome in slow motion. That doesn't mean I intended to kill the person. If a jury is more likely to think I had time to notice the person passing by because of slow motion and thus believe that I intended to kill the person, then that's an error.
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Re:Slow-motion replays can distort criminal responsibility
by kevin_b_er on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @11:35AM
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It doesn't even have to be a killing.
The slow motion makes it look like actions were deliberate instead of spontaneous. So it makes it look like a planned action. If the defendant deliberately did it, they must be pretty terrible, right? Guilty of a worse crime.
Re:Slow-motion replays can distort criminal responsibility
by jsprogrammer on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:28PM
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How often does spontaneous violence occur? If it looks like actions were deliberate and planned, wouldn't you need some other reasoning to believe that they weren't?