Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Murder by AIDS? Message-ID: <444@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:34:48 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-sem.444 Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:34:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:10:50 EDT References: <1051@mtuxo.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 20 > If person A injects some AIDS virus into person B with the > intent of giving them AIDS so they will die, what crime can > person A be convicted of? Attempted murder? Murder (if B dies)? > Assualt? > It is murder if you do anything to somebody in order to kill them and then they die as a result > How about if person A, who knows he has AIDS, rapes person B > with the admitted intent to give them AIDS so they will die? > Attempted murder? > If they die, you might get them on the Felony-Murder rule, which states that if a person dies, even indirectly, as a result of the commission of a felony, the crime is murder. It wouldn't be attempted murder becuase the question isn't whether it was attempted or completed, but whether it the charge was murder or not. -Ron