On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:49:19 -0400, daestrom wrote:

"Vaughn Simon" wrote in message
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"Bruce L. Bergman" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 18:52:33 GMT, "Vaughn Simon"

Not at all - a person properly trained in electricity theories,

I am both an electronics technician and a licensed electrician, so I
think I have had a bit of training in electricity theories.

construction codes and the like would know the risks involved, and if
he did cause a backfeed into the utility system anyway and someone
dies, Murder 2 (done deliberately but with no premeditation) would be
a reasonable charge to level.

That is absolute bull****.


Nope. It's called, 'reckless disregard for others resulting in the death of
someone'. In many states that fits the statute of murder. In NY it's not
called Murder-2 since that is 'premeditated' while Murder-1 is 'causing the
death of a law enforcement person while committing a felony act'. In NY it
would be manslaughter in the first-degree.

All it would take is an accident and the DA being able to prove that you 1)
had the prerequisite knowledge yet 2) choose to deliberately ignore the code
requirements and that 3) your actions resulted in the death.

daestrom


Let's be careful making legal judgments.

Making a mistake while trying to do a good job is not reckless.

"Reckless" in this context would be, for example, deliberately
connecting the generator to utility side as an experiment.

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