Chapter 72 Comfort

To put it simply, the identification of attempters under U.S. criminal law is that the defendant must commit a certain degree of behavior towards the target crime, and attempters cannot be punished for simple criminal intent.

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

Of course, the U.S. criminal law has not yet reached a consensus on the extent to which criminal behavior must be carried out to meet the elements of an attempted crime. The basis for punishing an attempted crime is the commission of a criminal act, but the standard legal doctrine for determining the elements of an attempted crime is

There are many factions, endless debates, and no unified standards.

The only common understanding is that the act of committing a crime is the starting point for punishment and is the principle and standard for distinguishing crimes and non-crimes. Pure preparatory behavior means that the behavior before committing a crime is not a crime.

Based on Sergeant Badman’s years of experience, in this incident, if Kevin Church had poured sugar into the fuel tank of Chi Heng’s pickup truck, then it would be considered as an objective fact that he had already carried out the act.

In fact, Kevin Church will suffer, and there will be a basis for punishing him.

However, since Kevin Church has not poured the sugar into the gas tank, but only put it in his pocket, it cannot 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 it was recorded in a tape recorder, before committing the crime against Chi Heng, it was at best a warning to him and could not convict him.

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

Chi Heng was dumbfounded, so he said that the fishing trap he set this time seemed to be successful, but it was still a failure. He suffered the loss because of his lack of legal knowledge. If he had allowed Kevin Church to take further actions at that time

If so...it would cost him his pickup truck to be scrapped, which he wouldn't be willing to think about.

"The above premise is normal," Sheriff Badman joked humorously. "If you are rich and can afford a big lawyer in New York, you may still be able to convict him and get a two-year sentence after wasting half a year."

Three years.”

Chi Heng was silent for a moment, he also had this worry.

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

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This is a tacit admission that Chi Heng will not accuse Kevin Church. In fact, even if Chi Heng accuses the other party, Sheriff Badman will detain him for a maximum of 24 hours before further evidence is clear.

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

Chi Heng was speechless.

"Other than that, I'll let O'Connor monitor him."

As students, they currently don’t have much means to guard against a madman. No, even adults, how can they guard against a madman who intends to retaliate against you 24 hours a day? It’s like a time bomb unless you are there all the time.

There are multiple levels of bodyguards.

David and Sarah could understand Wilbur's anger. They thought the incident had been resolved, but they didn't expect that they were just happy.

"Damn it, do I have to be careful wherever I go from now on to see if I'm being followed by a madman?"

Wilbo tugged at his hair impatiently.

Chi Heng, who was thinking a lot, walked out of the police station. Wilbo and the three others outside the door were still waiting for him. When they saw him coming out, they swarmed forward and were inexplicably excited. They probably thought they had solved the huge threat of Kevin Church.

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"Don't scare yourself," Chi Heng subconsciously touched the secret grid, "The person Kevin Church hates most right now is probably me. He will use me as a target, so you can rest assured for now."

"Damn it!"

"I don't think Kevin Church will give up his plan for revenge," Chi Heng thought for a while and said, "Instead, he will plan more carefully. From today's perspective, he did not come to me directly, but tried to murder me in other ways.

I just want to show that you can't regard him as a simple madman, at least he has a plan."

"Then what should we do?"

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

He asked the three people to get in the car and drove to a remote place on the outskirts of the town. He turned around and roughly repeated the conversation he had just had with the police chief. The main purpose was to let the three people understand that it would be difficult to convict Kevin Church.

Can't do it.

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

Chief Badman had something to say.

Chi Heng suddenly realized, yes, he almost forgot about this. In American legal judgments, the influencing factors from the jury must not be ignored.

The three of them suddenly looked sad. This was true.

As soon as Chi Heng spoke, the expressions of the three of them froze, "Find a place to chat with you."

"Sir, please help us."

"It's not that I don't want to help you," Chi Heng sighed, "It's just that I can't be with you 24 hours a day! There's no way I can guard against Kevin Church 24 hours a day."

"I'll warn him," Sheriff Badman sighed, "to keep him away from you."

For some reason, when they heard what Chi Heng said, the three of them felt a chill in their hearts. They felt that Chi Heng was not just a simple countermeasure.

This was the greatest help Sheriff Badman could do. Chi Heng understood his painstaking efforts, nodded, and asked: "Chief, if Kevin Church invades my house privately, can I shoot him?"

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Chi Heng's expression changed slightly. He remembered that although he lived in the old house, he had not obtained the inheritance certificate of the old house. As long as the owner of Alidas Manor interfered...

In Sarah's view, today's events proved that Chi Heng had the ability to deal with the lunatic Kevin Church, but he was just unlucky, or this lunatic was very lucky.

"For self-defense, of course, provided it is your house."

After hearing this, Wilbo couldn't help but curse.

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

"Kids, it's not that simple."

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

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He originally planned to use fishing traps and legal weapons to deal with Kevin Church, but failed. How to deal with it next?

Use the fishing trap again?

I'm afraid Kevin Church won't be fooled so easily.

Moreover, even if he uses legal weapons to trap the other party, Chi Heng will have to spend a lot of money and time to convict the other party. If he thinks about it carefully, he really doesn't have the energy.

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

Chi Heng made up his mind, his heart was beating fast, and his mouth was dry. He held the steering wheel with his left hand and put his right hand on the hidden compartment without moving. As the saying goes, if you have a sharp weapon, you will have a murderous intention. This is really not nonsense.

, when a problem can be solved simply by using some violent method, humans will not be inclined to more complex solutions.
Chapter completed!