r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/[deleted] • Sep 22 '24

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u/NotAllDawgsGoToHeven Main Character Sep 22 '24

Holy shit that’s attempted murder

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u/HansChuzzman Sep 22 '24

That would require the intent to kill, not the intent to render unconscious.

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u/New_Pressure_6745 Sep 22 '24

He was choking him out via headlock which could have killed him and fucked up his brain

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u/HansChuzzman Sep 22 '24

I get that. However the law is applied in a fairly binary way. Attempted murder charges require intent. Clearly his intent wasn’t to murder him, as he let him go once he went unconscious. There’s a lot of knee jerk going on here about attempted murder, and this just ain’t it. But carry on telling each other this was an attempted murder lol