Comment by chrisseaton
4 years ago
How does that work? Can you murder someone for a prank and say your intent was just a prank so it was fine?
4 years ago
How does that work? Can you murder someone for a prank and say your intent was just a prank so it was fine?
Intent separates murder from manslaughter in most states in thr USA, so yeah, a death from a prank is tangible different.
But they did intend to disrupt the systems in this case. The impact was their exact intent.
When people say "establishing intent" in terms of criminal cases, this is usually a shorthand for something more specifically defined in the law, like "intent to do harm" or something.
To use the murder example again: many people who commit manslaughter have all kinds of various intentions. The one murder is concerned with is whether or not they specifically had the intent to kill the person. "Establishing intent" in this scenario is specifically regarding that one intent. Not any intent.