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... isn't that considered murder?
Suicide of Rutgers University Freshman Tyler Clementi... (via ebonypearl and others)
Under New Jersey's invasion-of-privacy statutes, it is a fourth degree crime to collect or view images depicting nudity or sexual contact involving another individual without that person's consent, and it is a third degree crime to transmit or distribute such images. The penalty for conviction of a third degree offense can include a prison term of up to five years.
No, this is not a "prank".
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Date: 2010-09-30 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-01 01:23 pm (UTC)I just don't like to accuse people of things unless I have something to back me up.
Felony murder rule
Date: 2010-09-30 04:20 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
it may not apply here. It may apply only to violent felonies or those reasonably likely to result in death. Also, not all juridictions have the rule.
I'm not a lawyer, and even if I were I'm not in New Jersey, so take this with a grain of salt.
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Date: 2010-09-30 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 07:05 pm (UTC)It's still a goddamn tragedy, and I hope that the people who did it get jail time for the original offense, and rot in there. I can't legally slap more time on them because their victim died, but I sure can personally wish them the hardest time in prison that anybody ever had.
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Date: 2010-09-30 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 09:31 pm (UTC)Privacy is privacy, and respect is respect. Death, similarly, is death, and it always has a cause.
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Date: 2010-09-30 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 11:12 pm (UTC)