<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Coombs</b> <<a href="mailto:mushroom@moscow.com">mushroom@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Please remember, though, that all murders are killings,<br>but not all killings are murders. We depend on the
<br>judicial system to determine if a killing is murder.<br><br>Don Coombs</blockquote>
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<div>So the "alleged" (what a difference this word makes) murders in Troy, by Delling, and in or near Genesee, should not technically be counted yet in an estimate of Latah County's 2007 murder rate, given the judicial system has not ruled on these cases. But given that Hamilton will never stand trial, and the facts of the case on his commission of those crimes appear solid, can we call the three homicides' victims (not counting his suicide) of "murder?" It sure seems so, though the judicial system has not ruled on this issue, or have they?
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<div>I wonder if murder rates only include first and second degree murder? What about voluntary manslaughter? It seems that involuntary manslaughter would not be included, nor homicide in self defense.</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div><br> </div>