Under the judicial system, as it works, each murder committed in the bombing is an individual act of murder. Each person maimed is an individual harmed by a separate act accountable under the law, thus multiple counts.
If your neighbor was killed in the blast and your wife also.. and the perp was only found guilty of killing your neighbor would you have closure, feel justice had been served? Further, all capital counts go to automatic appeal. On appeal, each count is treated, rightfully, as a separate case. If one count is set aside on appeal, say in this hypothetical, the murder of your neighbor, and the perp was not found guilty of the murder of your wife, under the double jeopardy rule which basically says, you can only be tried once, opening yet another case to charge the perp with the murder of your wife would be legally difficult and unlikely.. so the perp would be released, knowing he was guilty of the second murder.. Thus,,, cover all the bases in one trial with multiple counts. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Mountain Man <maontin....@gmail.com> wrote: > Grant wrote: > > On another note.. I see the Boston bomber was found guilty on all 30 > > counts.. > > I heard this also. What good is 30 counts? > One count=death and one death is permanent, correct? > Tell us what value 30 counts does, please? Just to make the point? > Vindictiveness? Is vindictiveness the new American character? When > is enough enough? > Thanks. > mao > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
