Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Was Mrs. West legally responsible for Smith's death? Hardly. In the eyes of the law, the proper defendants in the killing were the victim's buddies−not only the wounded Daniels, but also Alvin Taylor, who, according to police, was sitting outside in the getaway car...
In a fascinating example of legal logic, the California Supreme Court has just ruled, by a vote of 4 to 3, that Taylor can be tried for his friend's murder. Because Taylor was an accomplice, he was liable for any act of his co-conspirators that furthered their...
Necessary Addition. The knottiest point for the justices was an earlier California Supreme Court decision that simply pointing a gun at someone is not "sufficiently provocative of lethal resistance" to support a charge of murder against surviving accomplices when the gun wielder is killed. Thus the issue in this case...
In theory, the majority's rarefied reasoning might possibly apply even to Angela Davis among others. Accused of aiding and abetting the kidnap-murder of Judge Harold Haley near San Francisco four months ago, she has already been charged with conspiracy and murder in the judge's death...
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