I believe the children are our future and it's a bleak outlook with this kid

For Fuck's sake ...

Paging Starman Justice.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11123/1143801-100.stm

 

Why is he NOT being charged with murder of some sort - at least involuntary manslaughter or something. Had he called the authorities, perhaps the dude is still alive.

 

Why does that story call the 17-year-old an actor?

 

That's cold.

 

Because he didn't actually kill the man. You cannot be charged for something you didn't do. The man died of a heart attack, not because of anything the kid did.

Was the kid wrong to rob the man? Without question. But all he can be charged with is robbery and/or theft, because those were the crimes he actually committed. Leaving the man to die is wrong, but it's not illegal. You cannot legislate morality when a law is not actually broken.

 

I think you could probably get some kind of medical authority to argue the experience of getting robbed could have precipitated/exacerbated the heart attack. Negligent homicide.

He put his hands on the guy -- that's assault.

Hauling an old guy out of a car and dumping him on the ground probably qualifiies as aggravated (as well as assault in the commission of a robbery.)

Shake the law books good to figure out shit to dump on this punk's head.

 

I doubt it. From the story, the man was already having the heart attack before the kid got there. Assault, maybe, but if the Post-Gazette has its facts straight, the kid did not cause the heart attack.

 

According to the kid himself. Sure.

 

In Latham, Mass., that's a direct violation of the "Good Samaritan Law."

 

According to the article, the kid was an actor.

Maybe this was all staged.

 

I actually had to look that up.

 

Ha!