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Subject: Murder laws
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Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 21:00:16 EDT
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    From: Mario O. Bourgoin <mob@MEDIA-LAB.MIT.EDU>

    [your proposed amendment] makes murder laws unworkable because
    there is no way of deciding afterwards that the person was not
    voluntarily involved in the dangerous activity.

  The presumption in cases like shooting, stabbing, robbery, etc, is
that the victim did not consent.
                                                              ...Keith

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