phony al wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
A law was violated, which is why he was tried. Homicide- the killing of a person - is with the rarest exceptions a crime. One of the exceptions is self defense - which is what he had to argue. Without that defense he would have been found guilty of murder. So - yes - homicide is illegal, Homer. Another legally unqualified "expert".
Homicide, by definition, is not a crime. That is US law school criminal law class 101. You are a FAKE lawyer.
We can all see that you have googled up your basic legal error by now, and are panicked and trying this "rarest exceptions" bit, as if that somehow made your INCORRECT statement of law okay. It does not. Self defense, execution, euthanasia, war, prevention of harm to other, car crashes, etc. are not "exceptions" they are results of the basic definition of "homicide" that you got WRONG. They are not rare either.
You are too dumb, pompous and fake to realize that the VERY reason that Baldwin (the guy you've spent 40 pages advocating for) is not in jail is precisely because homicide is not a crime. Homicide is not crime, Homer. That is bedrock US criminal law and has been for hundreds of years. You are a FAKE lawyer.
And don't forget part two of your double stupidity in this 11 word phrase -- "The court did say there was a crime, which was homicide." The Rittenhouse court NEVER said there was a crime. You are WRONG, and don't have the slightest clue how criminal (or civil cases) in the US proceed.
It really is difficult to exchange views with someone who has no idea either of his limitations or his ignorance of what he is talking about. You would know this if you realised that by arguing there are justifiable "exceptions" to criminal culpability for a given act - the taking of life - the thing they refer to must therefore be proscribed. If this was not so there would be no need to argue there are exceptions, would there?
The reason Baldwin hasn't been charged - yet - with anything is that evidence of intent (or gross negligence) has not been established, while it was with Rittenhouse. The difference with Rittenhouse was that he could argue the "exception" of self defense. Without that "exception" he would have been found a murderer. The act he committed was a crime; that is why he was on trial, and it was a subsequently argued defense that got him off - and only that.
In your unqualified pretensions to legal knowledge you really are the complete phony - as you user name indicates, Phony Al.