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Old 2012-08-07, 13:14   Link #11
AC-Phoenix
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Originally Posted by Utsuro no Hako View Post
I don't know the legal standard in Japan, but in the US the case would turn on the question of what a reasonable person in that situation would believe. The prosecutor would march in a few dozen players to testify, "Yup, I thought I was going to die." He'd also probably use his closing statement to ask, "If this guy didn't believe the threat, why didn't he kill himself to escape the game?"
Yeah as I stated before dolus eventualis is defnitely there, which is usually enough for homocide charges.
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