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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Murder by AIDS?
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:34:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:34:48 1985
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> 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