silence

Chapter 72 Consolation
To put it simply, the determination of attempted crimes in the United States criminal law means that the defendant must commit to a certain degree of behavior toward the target crime, and pure criminal intent cannot be punished for attempted crimes.

That is to say, if a person has criminal intent but has not yet committed the crime, the law cannot punish the attempted criminal.

Of course, the US criminal law has not yet reached a consensus on the extent to which criminal acts meet the constituent elements of attempted crimes. The basis for punishing attempted criminals is the execution of criminal acts. There are many factions and disputes, and there is no unified standard.

The only common understanding is that the act of carrying out the action is the starting point of punishment, and it is the principle and standard for distinguishing crime from non-crime.

Based on Sergeant Badman's experience over the years, if Kevin Church had poured sugar into the fuel tank of Chi Heng's pickup truck in this incident, then it can be determined that the act of carrying out the action has already begun. In fact, then Kevin Church suffered, and there is a basis for punishing him.

However, since Kevin Church hasn't poured the sugar into the fuel tank, but just put it in his pocket, it can't be judged that he intends to murder Chi Heng. What if he just wants to take it home?

As for Kevin Church's verbal threat to Chi Heng, even if there is a recording, before the crime against Chi Heng is committed, it is at most a warning to him, and he cannot be convicted.

The confessions of the other three children cannot be counted without recording evidence. At most, they can be corroborated a little, but Kevin Church still cannot be punished.

Chi Heng was dumbfounded, so he said that the fishing trap he set up this time seemed to be a success, but it was still a failure. It was because he suffered from lack of legal knowledge. If he had allowed Kevin Church to take further actions If so... then he would have to pay the price of scrapping his pickup truck, even thinking about it.

"The above premise is a normal situation," Sergeant Badman joked humorously, "If you are rich and can afford a New York barrister, maybe you can waste half a year and a year, and you can still convict him. Three years."

Chi Heng was speechless.

"Also," Sergeant Badman advised Chi Heng, "In addition to the above reasons, it is difficult to convict him, don't forget, he just died of his son, just because of this, the jury will let him go out of sympathy. "

Chi Heng suddenly realized that, yes, he almost forgot about this. According to the legal judgment of the United States, the influence factors from the jury must not be ignored.

"I'll warn him," sighed Sergeant Badman, "and keep him away from you."

This is the default that Chi Heng will not accuse Kevin Church. In fact, even if Chi Heng accuses the other party, Sergeant Badman will detain him for up to 24 hours without further evidence.

"Other than that, I'll put O'Connor in charge of monitoring him."

This is the greatest help Sheriff Badman can do. Chi Heng understood his painstaking efforts, nodded, and asked again: "Sheriff, if Kevin Church invades my house without permission, can I shoot him dead? "

"In self-defense, of course, provided it's your house."

Sheriff Badman pointed.

Chi Heng's expression changed slightly. He remembered that although he lived in the old house, he did not obtain the certificate of inheritance of the old house. As long as the owner of the Aldas Manor is in the way...

The thoughtful Chi Heng walked out of the police station. Wilbo and the three outside the door were still waiting for him. Seeing him coming out, they swarmed up, feeling inexplicably excited. They probably thought that the huge threat of Kevin Church would be dealt with. up.

"Kids, it's not that simple."

As soon as Chi Heng opened his mouth, the expressions of the three froze, "Find a place and chat with you."

He asked the three people to get in the car, drove to a remote place on the outskirts of the town, stopped, turned around, and roughly repeated the conversation with the sheriff just now, mainly to let the three people understand that if they want to convict Kevin Church can't do it.

"Damn!"

After hearing this, Wilbur couldn't help cursing.

David and Sarah could understand Wilbur's anger. They thought the incident had been resolved, but they didn't expect it to be just joy.

"I don't think Kevin Church will give up his plan of revenge," Chi Heng thought for a while, and said, "On the contrary, he will plan more carefully. From today's point of view, he didn't come to me directly, but tried to murder me in other ways. I mean, I can't treat him as a simple lunatic, at least he has a plan."

"Sir, please help us."

In Sarah's view, what happened today proved that Chi Heng has the ability to deal with Kevin Church, a lunatic, but his luck was bad, or this lunatic was too lucky.

However, Chi Heng thought that he was not prepared enough, did not understand the relevant laws in advance, but took things for granted.

"It's not that I don't want to help you," Chi Heng sighed, "It's that I can't be with you 24 hours a day! I also can't guard against Kevin Church 24 hours a day."

The three of them suddenly frowned, this is the truth.

As students, they currently don't have much means to guard against a lunatic. No, even adults, how can they guard against a lunatic who plans to take revenge on you 24 hours a day?It's like a ticking time bomb, unless you have multiple levels of bodyguards all the time.

"Then what should we do?"

David was crying, and he wanted to leave this town more and more.

"What you can do is not to act alone, if you are at home, lock the doors and windows."

Chi Heng said comfortingly: "Having learned this lesson, Kevin Church will be more careful and won't take action easily. As long as you don't leave alone or go to places with few people, you don't have to worry too much. "

"Damn it, do I have to pay attention to whether I will be followed by a lunatic wherever I go in the future?"

Wilbur tugged at his hair impatiently.

Chi Heng was silent for a while, he also had this kind of worry.

"Don't scare yourself." Chi Heng subconsciously touched the dark space, "Kevin Church probably hates me the most now, and he will target me. You can rest assured for now."

For some reason, when they heard what Chi Heng said, the three of them suddenly felt chills in their hearts, and they always felt that Chi Heng was not a simple countermeasure.

After driving the three children back, Chi Heng hurried back, pondering what he had just thought.

He originally planned to use fishing traps and legal weapons to deal with Kevin Church, but he failed. How should he deal with it next?
Another fishing trap?
I'm afraid Kevin Church isn't so gullible anymore.

And even if the other party is cheated with legal weapons, Chi Heng will have to spend a lot of money and time to convict the other party. When I think about it carefully, I really don't have that energy.

"In that case, don't blame me for being cruel."

Chi Heng made up his mind, his heart was pounding, his mouth was dry, his left hand was holding the steering wheel, and his right hand was placed in the dark space without moving.As the saying goes, with a sharp weapon in hand, you can kill yourself. This is really not nonsense. When a problem can be solved simply in a violent way, human beings will not tend to more complicated methods.

(End of this chapter)