Blueberry comments on The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Wei_Dai 15 January 2010 12:26AM

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Comment author: Blueberry 15 January 2010 07:00:46PM *  3 points [-]

In Washington, that's at least attempted manslaughter, which leads to a 10 year maximum. It may even be attempted murder, though we'd need to check the case law.

Comment author: wedrifid 16 January 2010 02:23:44PM *  4 points [-]

This is Australia. He started with possession of an unlicensed firearm and worked up from there.

The worst part was the appeal. I showed them the security footage in which I clearly reseeded the revolver between each of my four shots rather then firing four chambers sequentially and they wouldn't reduce the sentence by 22%.

If one of my shots had gone off on the second shot we could have seen if the judge was a frequentist. Would he call in a psychologist as an expert witness? "Was the defendant planning to shoot twice or shoot up to four times until the gun fired?"

Comment author: RobinZ 15 January 2010 07:08:13PM 0 points [-]

Correction: a Class A felony has a maximum sentence of life in prison, according to your link. Otherwise, yeah, you're right.