That 1200 guns 6.5 tons of ammunition, story just went weird

[jberryhill]

35. Did she leave him dead or not?

"ask for the police first, to get advice on what the law says"

That's not what the police do.

You have no, none, zero, zip, obligation or responsibility to call 911 if some person unrelated to you is in distress. The claim here is that he was in distress and specifically said he did not want 911 called.

But if someone over whom I have no legal responsibility is dying of a heart attack, I can stand there, take selfies, and send them to all my friends if I want to, and then just walk away. Now, I wouldn't do that, but as I've often said - what's legally required of someone is a poor guide to morality.

"And if she thought he died so soon after becoming unresponsive, I would think she would still have a legal obligation, not to mention an ethical one, to report the death."

Well you had charged her with manslaughter, as if she had caused his death.

Every version of this story is so horribly written, it is difficult to figure out the sequence of events. It's not clear to me whose car they were in, either.

But, in general, if someone (to whom you have no legal responsibility) drops dead in your presence, you are free to carry about your business in whatever manner you see fit.

before you can say 'no foul play'

I'm sure there will be an investigation. Again, I was responding to you claiming she should be charged with manslaughter. The way things work is that you need evidence of a crime before charging someone with one. Not the other way around.

I did not say "no foul play". I said, taking the story as true (pace the horrible writing about the sequence of events) on the facts given, I don't see a crime. Sure, one might come up as the details become clearer. But you don't get "manslaughter" out of walking away from someone who is in some sort of terminal distress.

(on edit: states vary wildly on failing to report an actual death or location of a corpse. It just recently because a misdemeanor in Michigan, for example: http://archive.freep.com/article/20130102/NEWS06/130102065/Failure-to-report-dead-body-becomes-misdemeanor-under-new-Michigan-law - "Failure to report dead body now a misdemeanor under new Michigan law" )