[Donut]

This is the scenario. A 29 year old man is preparing to give his dog a bath. He fills the bath to 9 inches and goes outside to get the dog. When outside he meets 2 10 year old girls who know him vaguely. One of them has a nosebleed so he invites them into his house to stem the blood. In fact he sits the girl on the end of the bed but can't stop it. He takes them to the bathroom and sits the girl on the end of the bath. He reaches for a towel and the girl falls backwards into the water, hits her head and drowns. The other girl starts screaming "you pushed her, you pushed her" so he panics and puts his hand over her nose & mouth to stop her. She suffocates.

Well how unlucky can one man be, not one but two fatal accidents in the space of two minutes. He does what any intelligent man does and takes the bodies into the countryside and leaves them in a secluded ditch. A few days later, worried that DNA evidence might cause a terrible injustice he reurns to the bodies and cuts the girls clothes off to be burned. Worrying that the evidence might convict him of someting he didn't do he arranges for an alibi with his girlfrien and thouroughly cleans his house and car.

So - the case is over, the jury is delibetating. if you were on that jury would it be manslaughter or murder?

[ 12-16-2003, 11:53 AM: Message edited by: Donut ]