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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I can’t make any arguments based in actual law, so I’m going to keep repeating the same thing in increasing hysterical and inflammatory fashion.”[/quote]

DP. If he died from an infection (I haven't seen anything that specific), then it was a complication of his original injuries sustained in the assault. [/quote]

Unless something else caused it.  People get infections (and die from them) all the time due to things like hospital exposure and improper hand washing, even when they’re not in permanent vegetative states.  It’s not something unique to that condition.[/quote]

Walking down that street was the last decision that Ryan made for himself.  After his assault he was rendered completely helpless, immobile, unconscious, unaware.  That is no life.  His body is now dead but he lost his life 10 years ago.[/quote]

“I can’t make any arguments based in actual law, so I’m going to keep repeating the same thing in increasing hysterical and inflammatory fashion.”[/quote]

From a policy perspective, we want closure and we don't want crimes to linger over someone for years or indefinitely. That's why we have statutes of limitation. But murder is different. There's no statute of limitations for murder.  The common law year and a day rule can be extended, especially in these circumstances with the victim in a persistent vegetative state. [/quote]

And West Virginia is free to overturn that rule whenever they like.  Apparently they haven't felt the need to do so.[/quote]

He hadn't died yet.  There hadn't yet been a reason to. [/quote]

You think this is the first time this kind of situation has come up in West Virginia?[/quote]

Yes.  It's not a common set of facts. Not a common situation.[/quote]

You think there's never been a case in West Virginia in even just the past twenty years when someone was injured by another person and then died over a year later from complications related to that injury?  Not a single case?[/quote]
Perhaps, perhaps not
A year is a long time. A sentence already passed and completed is also a long time

People in vegetative states die from all kinds of reasons, including lack of adequate care. Sometimes it is deliberate. Hospitals do and can help people die[/quote]

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