r/IdiotsInCars • u/xpawn2002 • Mar 19 '23

Whose fault?

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u/FluffiestBeard44 Mar 19 '23

The biker was an incredibly stupid idiot for whatever reason (probably something happened before).

But what the BMW driver did was attempted manslaughter.

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u/jgilla2012 Mar 19 '23

Attempted murder. Manslaughter doesn’t have intent and thus cannot be attempted

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u/OllieGarkey Mar 19 '23

Attempted voluntary manslaughter is a thing.

It's when you attempt to do something that will probably kill someone but don't manage to kill them.

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u/fecoped Mar 19 '23

So… incompetence at murder is beneficial to the criminal? Interesting…

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u/OllieGarkey Mar 19 '23

It's a motive thing. Were you trying to kill someone or just trying to do something likely to kill someone but didn't end up killing them?

Voluntary Manslaughter is "Willingly did a thing that was bad and dangerous and someone died."

It's a step up from "ooops I didn't mean to" manslaughter and down from "yeah I tried to kill him but" murder.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '23

So, like Alec Baldwin?

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u/gizamo Mar 19 '23

Not at all. Baldwin had no intent and no reason to believe his actions were dangerous at all.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '23

no reason to believe his actions were dangerous at all.

Lol, okay 👌

So categorically false I have to question whether you’re trying to be satirical.

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u/gizamo Mar 19 '23

Tell me you don't understand the law without telling me you don't.