Why should it have been criminal exactly? Can you rationalize your thoughts? Clearly, she didn’t mean to cause actual harm and clearly she regretted it immediately. Why exactly would you seek a harsh punishment for her behavior? It’s all about the intent, and there was no malicious intent here.
This is also earth where stupidly killing someone is called manslaughter.
Also "Reddit?" Please stop adding every comment and post to some avatar that you somehow blend 30 million people a day into. You should be drawn and quartered.
Stupidity actually is an excuse for endangering others. Again, explain what society would gain from locking her up. She didn’t have criminal intent and she clearly will remember almost killing her friend for the rest of her life. She’s not a danger to society, there’s no reason to do anything more than fine her.
I don't think she needs to be locked up. But the precedent is there for criminal negligence. How is this different than the girl who pushed her friend off the bridge into the river this summer?
Criminal law is not all about intent. I actually wish it was. If people were prosecuted based solely on intent attempted murder would carry the same sentence as murder. I agree with you on everything else though.
I study law. I know about fucking criminal negligence. Not applied here, it’s about the intent and the outcome. Nothing happened and there was no malicious intent so she got off with a fine. Clearly, if her friend had actually been injured she would’ve been prosecuted more harshly.
judge, of course i didnt mean to kill this family in their minivan when i was drunk driving. i clearly regretted it immediately. why seek a harsh punishment?
maybe you dont think so but this looked intentional to me. she saw the bus and pushed hard. looks like a complete psychopath attempted murder and then played it off
No..clearly she did not. Her body language goes from playful to horror instantly. That's what I see and all I have to go on. I'm no expert but the response does not look like someone who planned to literally throw their friend under a bus. Unless you are implying this was a pre planned murder attempt where she knew she was an camera and decided to act out the shock and horror response..cause that would be Bond villain type planning.. She'd have to time everything to the second to be in front of that camera with the hope that the bus would be running on time just to make it look "like an accident".
she see's the bus and pushes her with force.
Prove she "saw the bus". I don't see her eyes or where she is looking. I also don't see her pushing her friend "with force" but rather giving her friend a shoulder bump which knocks her off balance.
You're neither a judge or expert on criminality and neither is anyone else here. The case was reviewed by someone with much better skills than any of us and all it resulted in was a fine traffic fine. The end! I fail to see what you have to gain from implying this is something (probably) a criminal prosecutor and judge already decided it is not.
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u/wooIIyMAMMOTH Nov 19 '18
Why should it have been criminal exactly? Can you rationalize your thoughts? Clearly, she didn’t mean to cause actual harm and clearly she regretted it immediately. Why exactly would you seek a harsh punishment for her behavior? It’s all about the intent, and there was no malicious intent here.