Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170417075739/@comment-14909251-20170505053137

Arkantos95 wrote: It's still a deadly weapon that she used on a completely defenseless person. I'm not defending the Trophy Wife, and honestly would've clapped if she'd gotten her shit smasshed in, but she was behaving completely reasonably when she called for Weiss' arrest.

Plus there's this thing called a "crime of passion" you might want to look up in regards to the differences between the two. I think you need to just look up basic legal concepts. Legally, it is only considered murder if there is intent to cause harm. Absent intent one has to prove there was serious recklessness or negligence on the part of the accused. Nothing Weiss did would amount to being reckless or negligent. Weiss is effectively a perpetually loaded gun that cannot be holstered and has no safety, which will automatically home in on whatever causes her distress should the trigger be pulled. Unfortunately, that trigger can be pulled simply due to a high level of aggravation or distress caused by others. One has to assume the legal system in Remnant accounts for these facts as protecting huntsmen and huntresses from wrongful prosecution would be in the best interests of the state and humanity as a whole. I would say the trophy wife was not being reasonable at all given it was clearly not intentional, but that is somewhat understandable given her life was in immediate danger.