You know there’s a prosecutor somewhere in Maryland who is going to be telling this story at Bar Association mixers for the rest of his life:
Accepting a plea bargain that her attorney described as unprecedented in American jurisprudence, a 22-year-old Maryland woman yesterday agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of other defendants in the death of her son under the condition that charges against her be dropped if the child rises from the dead.
After hearing the news, John Grisham and Steven King decided to start discussing some sort of collaborative work.
[Via: Splenda]
Wow.
Isn’t this unnecessary? If the child rises from the dead, then, wouldn’t the charges of murder and child abuse resulting in death, be automatically null and void?
Is murder considered the permanent removal of life, or is a temporary removal of life still considered murder?
I don’t see why. That the child came back to life doesn’t mean they were never dead. If I destroy your property and get charged with vandalism, I don’t get let out of jail when someone comes along and cleans up after me.