Complications caused by the original wound. Same thing happens when a person tried to murder someone and invalids him instead. The prosecutors will wait years for the victim to die from any cause that can be blamed on the original injury … including infected bedsores.
November 16th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Complications caused by the original wound. Same thing happens when a person tried to murder someone and invalids him instead. The prosecutors will wait years for the victim to die from any cause that can be blamed on the original injury … including infected bedsores.
November 16th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Yeah, bullets can migrate in a body over time. All it has to do is migrate somewhere critical.
November 16th, 2011 at 4:21 pm
“Ronnie Brown, who was in the back seat, said he picked up a bag that contained a gun and it went off”
Sure it did.
http://today.seattletimes.com/2011/11/womans-death-13-years-after-shooting-could-bring-new-charges/
November 16th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
I thought the rule was that the victim had to die within a year and a day for it to count.
November 16th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Justthisguy –
I think that’s the old common law standard. We’ve moved beyond common law, since that doesn’t get enough convictions.