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Geez... an almost shooting rampage
somunny:
Here's the ubiquitous myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/scarizona
Graverobber *and* proud parent, to boot!
shmokes:
Saint has the difference between assault and battery basically correct, though it's missing the word "imminent". Your victim must believe that he is in imminent danger. Even if I see you in a Super Market and say that I am going to go get a gun from my trunk and return in less then a minute to put a bullet in your ass, I haven't committed assault. Unless I appear to have the intent and capability to carry out my threat at the exact moment that I make the threat, it's not assault. Thus you could never be guilty of assault based on a mailed letter unless, I suppose, the letter said, "I know you open your mail in your office. Well . . . guess who's hiding behind your desk with a length of piano wire, Dead Man?". Frankly, it's questionable whether even that would be assault . . .
In this case, you'd also have a problem because none of the intended victims knew about the letter, as far as I can tell. The person being assaulted must be put in an apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive touching. If I walk up behind you and point a loaded pistol at the back of your head, I haven't assaulted you because, while you were definitely in danger of an imminent harmful or offensive touching, you never had an apprehension of it. That is how I think I would characterize all the innocent people at the Superbowl who might have been injured by this guy.
CCM:
Can't you be arrested and charged for terroristic threats?
http://definitions.uslegal.com/t/terroristic-threat/
http://members.aol.com/StatutesP8/18PA2706.html
--- Quote ---(a) Offense defined. A person commits the crime of terroristic threats if the person communicates, either directly or indirectly, a threat to:
1. commit any crime of violence with intent to terrorize another;
2. cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation; or
3. otherwise cause serious public inconvenience, or cause terror or serious public inconvenience with reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience.
--- End quote ---
These laws seem to vary by state...
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 08, 2008, 03:23:46 pm ---. If I walk up behind you and point a loaded pistol at the back of your head, I haven't assaulted you because, while you were definitely in danger of an imminent harmful or offensive touching, you never had an apprehension of it.
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I know where you watch your pr0n... guess who is behind the couch with a kung fu grip, Squeeze Toy?
hypernova:
--- Quote ---"No one destroys my dream," he wrote.
--- End quote ---
...of filling people with booze, and contributing to drunken driving! :)
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