“I never meant to hurt him, only kidnap and potentially murder his wife!”

In his defense, the article does a much better job of explaining the apology than the headline

  • Esqplorer@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    They’re still wrong because criminal law has the concept of transferred intent.

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      9 months ago

      Just had to google that, but it’s astounding that needs to be spelled out into law. Before that was inked out could you just call a mulligan if you killed the wrong person?