kdfwr911 (retired)
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Talk about a bad day..................
I just got this in an email. Have no idea if it's true or not and don't feel like screwing with Snoops. True or false, it's worth the read. Anyone
who can make something like this up deserves an award anyway.
This is an unbelievable twist of fate!!
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, (AAFS)
President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal
complications of a bizarre death.
Here is the story:
On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and
concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head.
Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a 10-story building intending to
commit suicide.
He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency.
As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun
blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly.
Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been
installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some building
workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the
way he had planned.
The room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was
occupied by an elderly man and his wife.
They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun!
The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed
his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr. Opus.
When one intends to kill subject 'A' but kills subject 'B' in the attempt,
one is guilty of the murder of subject 'B.'
When confronted with the murder charge, the old man and his wife were both
adamant, and both said that they thought the shotgun was not loaded..
The old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with
the unloaded shotgun.
He had no intention to murder her.
Therefore, the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is,
assuming the gun had been accidentally loaded.
The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's
son loading the shotgun about 6 weeks prior to the fatal accident.
It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support
and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun
threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his
mother.
Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder
even though he didn't actually pull the trigger.
The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of
Ronald Opus.
Now for the exquisite twist...
Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus.
He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to
engineer his mother's murder.
This led him to jump off the 10 story building on March 23rd, only to be
killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window.
The son, Ronald Opus, had actually murdered himself.
So the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.
A true story from Associated Press.
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FAUBUSH
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Be careful what you wish for!
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Modockin
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Now that's Karma!
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Didn't I see that on Twilight Zone?
If you tell the truth, you don\'t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
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JabezBoy
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I am reasonably sure that is an old Crim Law school question/fact scenario.
\"Boats - Vessels of Freedom, Harbors of Healing - Boats\"
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kdfwr911 (retired)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JabezBoy
I am reasonably sure that is an old Crim Law school question/fact scenario. |
That's about what I figured.....but the Twilight Zone theory is plausible too. 
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lake4fun
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Good screenplay plot for CSI...
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555INlove
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Interesting read!
\"Attitude is not a gene, it\'s a muscle. You must exercise it.\"
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Captain Bob
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Nex year Fox will have a reality series on this.
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Maybe dancing with crazies..
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America's strangest suicides..
Some of the shows on TV today are just as stupid.
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