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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   1800 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 13, 2025

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FWIW this is un-fun enough I would have preferred not to have it on the thread.

Agreed. I generally like these, because they’re fun and quirky rulings on edge cases for the law, unusual things that come up from time to time but which you wouldn’t really think about. The weird ones are the best.

This case is not that. It’s a bog-standard murder case where an unprovoked attack wound up killing someone, where the murderers did not obviously intend for the death but just as obviously did not care about whether or not it happened. There is a specific class for this kind of killing in every jurisdiction that I’ve bothered looking at, because it’s how you classify the casual killings committed by people who think violence is funny or a normal means to whatever end. The only thing unusual is how on Earth the trial judge dismissed charges in the first place, and any speculation there either stops at concluding ignorance or continues on into Culture War territory.

I find learning about random legal stuff like the necessary evidence for conspiracy and murder to be reasonably fun, personally.

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