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Old Sat Jan 18, 2003, 03:52pm
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Figured this should be on a separate thread. We've been talking about "intent" as regards both interference in softball and criminal acts in society. The big topic today on Philadelphia talk radio was the decision of a prosecutor to try a 15-year-old as an adult in a controversial case. The kid dropped an 18-pound chunk of ice off a highway overpass near Allentown, Pennsylvania, timing the drop so the ice would strike a car. Well, he scored a hit, and the ice crashed through the windshield and killed a 33-year-old mother of three.

A lot of people are arguing that since the kid did not intend to hurt anyone and was only pulling a foolish prank, he should be tried as a juvenile. (I don't know what it's like in North Carolina, Roger, but around here trying someone as a juvenile is tantamount to letting him go.) They're even setting up a defense fund for the kid.

The woman who was killed happened to live in my town.
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