• Avicenna@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    what happened to the good old man-slaughter which should also apply in cases of accidents

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      4 days ago

      12 out of 12 jurors will be drivers. They will not convict another driver for being distracted because they also do it all the time. Prosecutors know this and don’t wan to waste time on pointless cases.

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      4 days ago

      It’s not the driver that kills, it’s the car. How are you going to assign man-slaughter charges to an inanimate object?

      PS: The inverse is true for guns tho.