Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on Alec Baldwin's film "Rust," was given the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
  • IrateAnteater
    383·
    7 months ago

    Intent is part of the law. Yours was a crime committed with intent, her’s was a crime committed by negligence.

    • treefrog@lemm.ee
      1212·
      7 months ago

      So if someone’s intention is to treat depression or cluster headaches the law takes that into consideration? Or not?

      • IrateAnteater
        311·
        7 months ago

        I’m not arguing the merit of the law itself, I’m just saying that doing something that you know to be against the law is inherently going to generally get you a harsher punishment than causing harm via negligence.

        • treefrog@lemm.ee
          66·
          7 months ago

          That’s generally fair. In this the negligence ended a life though.

          • IrateAnteater
            151·
            7 months ago

            Well yeah. That’s why there’s any legal punishment at all. Being bad at your job otherwise would just get you fired.