Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on Alec Baldwin's film "Rust," was given the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
  • treefrog@lemm.ee
    626·
    8 months ago

    People do more time for growing medicinal fungus than she will for manslaughter .

    • Woozythebear@lemmy.world
      514·
      8 months ago

      And she will do more time in prison for manslaughter then every rich person who has committed manslaughter and never see a day behind bars.

      • treefrog@lemm.ee
        1212·
        8 months ago

        So if someone’s intention is to treat depression or cluster headaches the law takes that into consideration? Or not?

        • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
          301·
          8 months ago

          I’m not arguing the merit of the law itself, I’m just saying that doing something that you know to be against the law is inherently going to generally get you a harsher punishment than causing harm via negligence.

          • treefrog@lemm.ee
            66·
            8 months ago

            That’s generally fair. In this the negligence ended a life though.

            • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
              151·
              8 months ago

              Well yeah. That’s why there’s any legal punishment at all. Being bad at your job otherwise would just get you fired.