From pycyn@aol.com Tue Jun 13 13:48:56 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28903 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2000 20:48:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 Jun 2000 20:48:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo14.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.4) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 20:48:54 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo14.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.10.) id a.9c.49b68ae (618) for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:48:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <9c.49b68ae.2677f81f@aol.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:48:31 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] le/lei/la/lai ... Brutus & the rest To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com In a message dated 00-06-13 10:44:25 EDT, robin (quoting john) writes: << But even if not, it wouldn't have mattered legally: aiding and abetting >is just as criminal, in both (English) common law and (Roman) civil law, as >actually stabbing. Umm, last I checked, the sentences for the one were rather less severe than the sentences for the other. >> Book law. We were talking assassination, and then, if the friends of the victim retain power, anything goes. Everyone vaguely connected with the Lincoln assassination, with the exception of Dr. Mudd, was hanged. Mudd got off with life only because he was completely innocent. And it would not be too hard to find a case where the person who actually caused the death of another with malice aforethought or in the commission of another crime got a lighter sentence than a peripheral figure, who, say, drove the getaway car. Easy to find current US cases where the latter got death, the former life at worst.