• LilBobbyTables@lemmy.today
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    14 hours ago

    Well not really. Stalking resulting in death wouldn’t necessarily mean they committed murder, would it? If you were stalking someone and they got hit by a car running from you, that’s not murder but it would be stalking resulting in death wouldn’t it?

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      14 hours ago

      There’s no federal murder charge. This is the closest equivalent. It’s fundamentally the same thing and carries the same penalties. You can literally think of it as the same charge just worded differently.

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        5 hours ago

        Ok but the stalking resulting in death doesn’t necessarily involve murder, does it? It just means that they ended up dead, right?