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RE: Was this Lincoln conspirator guilty? At this museum, you decide. - Eva Elisabeth - 04-24-2016 05:28 PM
Mary knew about shooting irons intended to be used, and certainly not for hunting. I am against death penalty in general, but I find her guilty of conspiracy and not reporting whatever she knew to the police (even if she had only known of kidnapping it should have led to police taking action to prevent) - so, from the point of US law that applies here - I think this was in "Blood on the Moon" but don't remember exactly, wouldn't participating (actively or passively) in kidnapping the president also "provide" the option of death penalty?
RE: Was this Lincoln conspirator guilty? At this museum, you decide. - L Verge - 04-24-2016 08:27 PM
That is the purpose of the vicarious liability legal term that is used to show how one can be implicated in a more serious crime than intended when entering a conspiracy. Most of the lawyers on the case were hoping to divide the evidence according to two conspiracies -- one to kidnap (which might have spared Mary) and a different one to assassinate.