Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!mark From: mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: NYC subway hero Message-ID: <4134@elsie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 17:56:14 EST Article-I.D.: elsie.4134 Posted: Wed Jan 9 17:56:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:41:58 EST References: <241@harvard.ARPA> <6843@watdaisy.UUCP> <600@aluxe.UUCP> <6846@watdaisy.UUCP> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 15 > > Maybe D.C. really has, or used to have, its own criminal code. > ... why doesn't anyone in D.C. answer this? > Yes, murder is illegal in DC. If you kill an average Joe Shmoo in the district, it's the city governments problem. If you get a Congress-person or Federal Official, it's both a Federal and a Local offense. When King Ronald got shot they had the option of trying Hinkley under Federal or Local law. They chose Federal only to find it was much easier to plead insanity. -- Mark J. Miller NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC UUCP: decvax!harpo!seismo!elsie!mark Phone: (301) 496-5688