Timeline for Criminal law and backward time travel
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| Oct 19, 2017 at 13:46 | comment | added | Azuaron | The question is asking about the actions of characters, so this does not belong here as it is too story-based. That being said... this event is literally without precedent, so you get to make up what happens. | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 12:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 19, 2017 at 12:20 | answer | added | MichaelK | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 11:43 | comment | added | FFN | The question seems to imply that (B) is the only one who does not remember what happened in the future.That's a very weird situation on my opinion. If none of the characters remember what happened, then, for all practical effects, it hasn't happened. If they DO remember, why is (B) the only one to not remember? This is not only a weird situation, but a possible plot hole and I think it affects the whole situation. | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 11:28 | history | edited | Secespitus |
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| Oct 11, 2017 at 23:19 | vote | accept | MM Bolduc | ||
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| Oct 10, 2017 at 4:07 | answer | added | a4android | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 1:52 | answer | added | WhatRoughBeast | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 1:05 | answer | added | Lot-Of-Malarkey | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 0:36 | answer | added | Cottonmouth87 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 0:26 | history | migrated | from law.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Oct 9, 2017 at 23:49 | comment | added | ohwilleke | The question might be appropriate in the World Building forum, but it is too far afield for law stack exchange. How a situation would be dealt with is largely a matter of opinion and depends too much on the details of how time travel is conceived in this scenario which has many versions (e.g. many world v. single time line versions). | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 14:01 | comment | added | MM Bolduc | I did think my situation could be compared to A intending to murder B, and B getting into a coma instead. Even if B comes back out of his coma without any consequences other than having lost his memories of the last days before and after the crime, A would probably be procecuted. But what if there was zero physical evidence, only witnesses? | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 8:53 | comment | added | Tom Au | I would couch this question in "real world" terms. Suppose A hit B in the head with the intention of killing him. B survives, but loses his memory. What is A's liaiblity under the cirumstances? | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 3:34 | comment | added | user25818 | There is unsurprisingly little timetravel law. One would suspect that would change after a couple repeats. One might guess a judge remembering a murder might be convinced to issue a warrant to investigate but it pretty certainly hasn't come up. | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 1:10 | comment | added | MM Bolduc | A's crime was investigated before the time travel and A is the prime suspect. Thanks for the quick comment! | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 0:58 | comment | added | MM Bolduc | You're right, I haven't given enough info. Here comes: this is a Grounghog Day scenario but set over the same recurring year instead of day. The police is not omniscient, but everyone who was alive at the end of the first year remember what happened in that "lost future". The year will never be the same, despite some set facts like natural disasters and the like. | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 23:02 | comment | added | user6726 | In this situation, have they developed the ability to see into the future? In that jurisdiction, is determination by PreCrime of a future offense proof of a crime? Are the police onmiscient? Is this a Groundhog's Day loop, or does A eventually actually murder B without the world ending. There are too many unspecified plot variables to give an answer. | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 21:18 | history | asked | MM Bolduc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |