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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by jessaustin on Thursday September 22, 2016 @11:39PM (#12562159)
If I told an easily-angered person that her spouse had intimate relations with someone I didn't like, could I be charged with the resulting murder? Why don't the police have agency?
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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by Pxtl on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:15AM (#12564309)
Intent matters. The intent was to send a group of dangerous and heavily armed men in to detain an innocent person. That's aggravated kidnapping.

In common law, if somebody is killed in the commission of a violent felony even if the death was unplanned, it's "felony murder". In most of the USA, "felony murder" is first-degree murder.

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