Support for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, as well as sympathy for it, has spread on social media, alarming experts.
  • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works
    201·
    6 days ago

    On the colloquial sense, sure, but it’s entirely possible (and would be hilarious) for the legal definition not to agree

    • comfy
      41·
      6 days ago

      How so? (sincere question)

      edit: I misread and thought it was claiming a specific legal possibility

      • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works
        61·
        6 days ago

        I’m not specifically saying that this particular case isn’t murder, but if the quote we’re all responding to is accurate then there’s explicitly a way it could be considered “not murder”. I know absolutely nothing about the relevant law, but legal definitions not quite matching common sense definitions is the case more often than not, I think

        • comfy
          6·
          6 days ago

          Interestingly, I just saw a post claiming:

          According to NY legal code, it is not murder if:

          The defendant acted under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance for which there was a reasonable explanation or excuse, the reasonableness of which is to be determined from the viewpoint of a person in the defendant’s situation under the circumstances as the defendant believed them to be.

          Given how composed they are and premeditated it was, I’m not sure if this is in the spirit of the legal clause, but it could be… interpreted liberally by a judge.

        • comfy
          171·
          6 days ago

          Thanks for supplying your legal expertise pro bono, but we’re going to need a citation of relevant legislative definition if you’re going to make broad claims like that about legal matters.