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- From: achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach)
- Subject: Re: Hunter Kills Jogger
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.180253.16876@spdc.ti.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:02:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.162919.4026@super.org> wheeler@super.org (Ferrell S. Wheeler) writes:
- >Hunter Kills Jogger
- >
- >>From _The ARIES Newsletter_, December 1992, Animal Rights
- >Information & Education Service, Inc., P.O. Box 332, Rowayton,
- >CT 06853:
- >
- >
- >The hunter, Robert Cook, 42, of Thomaston, was hunting with
- >two others in a special anterless deer season and apparently
- >mistook Elliott for one of them,
-
- A jogger looks like a deer?!?
-
- >A Norwich hunter who fatally shot a man he mistook for a deer
- >in 1988 was sentenced this summer to six years in prison after
- >being convicted of second-degree manslaughter.
- >
-
- That's a good start, but it's not enough, IMO. He aimed and shot intentionally.
- Can someone explain to me why this is manslaughter and not murder? Something
- to do with intent, I presume?
- I can understand an accident wherein a bullet travels through brush and
- injures someone who could not be seen. I've never been able to understand
- these cases of mistaken identity. The courts have been far too lenient.
- Responsibility rests with the person holding the rifle and no one else. There
- is absolutely no excuse for shooting anything by mistake. Reminds me of the
- folks who run over motorcyclists in broad daylight because "they just came
- out of nowhere!" Truth is, they just didn't look.
-
- Jeff Achenbach
-