re: #245 Dark_Falcon

Bill Ayers was part of a group of Weather Underground terrorist building a bomb with nail shrapnel they planned to detonate at a soldier’s dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Fortunately, most of them were blown up instead when they had a “work accident”.

But you can’t charge someone with “having a work accident”. Nor can you charge them with “terrorism”. You have to charge them with a specific crime.

From what I can tell, “constructive manslaughter” would be the appropriate charge if Ayers had killed someone when he was only trying to bomb property (say, if one of his bombings of a building he thought was empty had killed someone.) “Homicide”, perhaps even “constructive homicide”, would be the appropriate charge if he killed his own allies with a bomb he’d intended to be used on soldiers (if there was enough evidence to connect him to the Greenwich explosion.) “Criminally negligent manslaughter/homicide” would be the charge if he was warned of a bombing he wasn’t a part of, failed to pass on the warning, and someone was killed.

I’m not excusing any of his crimes, just trying to understand the legal names we’d use for any given crime, since it’s been made an issue for downdings and such.