"A. Baum" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:43:48 -0700, wrote:

Has anyone done this before ?

stuff snipped about electrocuting burglars

Have a good lawyer on retainer for your manslaughter trial.

You've got the right idea. It's a number one dopey thing to do. But I doubt
he would go down for only manslaughter. Maybe if it's Christmas Eve and the
DA just won the lottery and felt generous.

It's murder one because a) he came here and asked for advice on how to do it
and b) was told of the legal jeopardy issues by many posters. If he still
built his sashocuter after knowing all this, it's premeditated murder. It's
almost a text-book example of premeditation. We're the meditating part.

While human beings get hot enough to kill over property crimes, the cold
dispassionate law doesn't see it that way. Still, I believe it's not an
insignificant number of murders that are committed every year over property
crimes, and IIRC they are a close second domestic abuse murders.

Some of those killings are truly manslaughter where no one started out with
an intent to kill but some guy catches some other guy stealing his brand new
(insert stealable item name here) and brains him with a piece of rebar that
was just lying around. Could be murder two, could be manslaughter. Depends
how many whacks he gave him, etc. I wonder how many people have met their
maker at the end of a section of rebar? I'll bet it's more than 100.

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Bobby G.