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Old September 18, 2007, 01:57 PM   #9
Samurai
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Location: Knoxville, TN
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This is a textbook law school case. The case everyone studies in law school involves a guy who was "tired of break-ins" in an old, abandoned farmhouse on his property. The guy rigged up a shotgun with a trip wire to shoot through the door when anyone approached the door to the house. Group of kids approach, and one kid gets killed (shotgun blast to the head). Guy is charged and convicted of murder. Guy says, "I didn't intend to kill anybody." Court upholds the conviction, and says that the guy knew or should have known that death would occur from setting the trap.

Moral of the story: Never, I mean NEVER, set up any kind of explosive trap (guns, bombs, etc.). You are NEVER justified in doing so, and if anyone gets killed by the trap, you'll be convicted of murder.
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