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Intersting legal charges: Murder or Attempted Murder!?


I saw the movie and it was very good: I really liked it.

For those of you that are lawyers or law students:

What really happened in this movie: murder or attempted murder?

Will the doctors be charged with first degree murder? If true, who died? Lilith? Lilith killed herself; a suicide. Clay? Clay lived at the end.

Will the doctors be charged with attempted murder? It makes sense because Clay didn't died at the end but he did DIED for some minutes so I don't know, those minutes constitute murder in first degree.

Is my opinion that all the doctors and Sam will be charged with attempted murder of Clay. Is also my opinion, they cannot charge the doctors and Sam with the murder of Lilith because a suicide is murder against oneself. On the other hand, she did it to save her son, like self defense, so she died saving her son. That could mean that the doctors were responsible for Lilith's death.

If I were a DA, I will charge all the doctors and Sam with 2 charges: first degree attempted murder against Clay and first degree murder against her mother Lilith.

I I were a defense attorney, I will claim that the first degree charge is *beep* and try to make a plea bargain with the DA.

If I were a juror, I don't know what I would decide. It will depend on the charges presented but I think I will vote guilty on those 2 charges because Lilith's death wasn't really a suicide but gave her life for her son. The ultimate sacrifice. If it weren't for the attempted murder on Clay, she would have lived.


"Imagination is more important than knowledge" ALBERT EINSTEIN

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He was never officially pronounced dead so no murder charge.

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If you kill someone and bury them in your backyard they are never pronounced dead either

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Attempted first degree murder and some sort of manslaughter charge for the mothers suicide.Because of their vocations and how important and powerful he is they would get life no parole easily.

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