Sunday, June 18, 2017

Sticks and stones...

Yesterday in Massachusetts Michelle Carter, 20 years old, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the death of her social media friend Conrad Roy III after he committed suicide.  Ms. Carter urged him to kill himself.  She could get 20 years.

Mr. Roy had threatened to kill himself a number of times, and he had rigged his truck so he could sit in the cab and breathe in the exhaust.

The verdict breaks new legal ground, and in my view is a major error.  "He told me to rob the bank" strikes me as a really weak rationale for a crime.  ACLU agrees with me, and the verdict will be appealed.

On another note, today we visited the Oroville Olive Festival.  Oroville, you may remember, was evacuated earlier this year when the dam on the Feather River threatened to give way.  The spillway is now being repaired.

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