"Ignoramus10518" wrote in message
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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.


That's true. But the other poster is talking about blatently ignoring the
code requirements and claims to be an electrical engineering type.

So, in his situation, he is dancing on the edge of 'reckless disregard for
human life'. He knows the risks, he knows it's against the code, he knows
it could put someone else in jeopardy, yet he's talking about willfully
doing it anyway. He may 'get away with it' several times and even be lulled
into a false sense of safety. But if there is an accident, he can't claim,
"I didn't know any better."

Now, if he was just some amateur Joe, with a 'suicide cord' and didn't know
any better, then that would not necessarily be 'reckless disregard'. But
that ain't what the other poster said.

daestrom

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