[pct-l] Man dies from rattlesnake bite...legal precedent

[Reinhold Metzger]

  On 10/18/2010 8:23 PM, Reinhold Metzger wrote:

Attorneys will love this.
This logic will be the corner stone of every attorney's defense argument 
from now on.
I can already hear the attorney's opening arguments......."Your honor 
the defendant pleads not guilty.
He did not kill the victim, he merly fired the gun.
The evidence will show that the bullet did not kill the victim....it was 
the massive subsequent bleeding
that killed the victim, not the bullet.
Therefore the defendant is not guilty as charged.

JMT Reinhold
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Ken wrote:
> Just a quick medical note:  This fellow was not killed by the bite.  
> The speed with which he progressed to stopping breathing is more 
> consistant with a heart attack.  I'm sure there will be an autopsy, 
> which will prove the case.
>
> Even with an intra-arterial injection of venom, the time frame is much 
> longer and gradual.
>
> Of course, there is no doubt that the bite was the precipitator of the 
> heart attack, probably through massive release of adrenaline due to 
> the stress.
>
> All of the precautions and warnings still apply, nonetheless.
>