Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoHow come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?message-squaremessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up144
arrow-up144message-squareHow come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square31linkfedilink
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·2 months agoIntent. You purchased the stuff to cook meth, not to blow something up.
minus-squareAreaKode@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·edit-22 months agoMore importantly, you’d have to convince a jury that the intent was there.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoI think OPs post could bridge most of the gap… Lol. What is this breaking bad? Stuff doesn’t blow up when you make drugs unless something went very, very wrong and then you lose all your investment.
minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI think that is a play on that concept of “felony murder” from that episode from Last Week Tonight.
Intent.
You purchased the stuff to cook meth, not to blow something up.
More importantly, you’d have to convince a jury that the intent was there.
I think OPs post could bridge most of the gap… Lol.
What is this breaking bad? Stuff doesn’t blow up when you make drugs unless something went very, very wrong and then you lose all your investment.
I think that is a play on that concept of “felony murder” from that episode from Last Week Tonight.