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