Tangentially related:At some point in the late 1990s, the following short article by Nuri Vittachi was included in the Far Eastern Economic Review:
On another tangent, I've wondered from time to time what legal difficulties would result if somebody added a clause to his will devoting some of his estate to finance a contract assassination. "Upon my death, I direct that $500,000 be applied to hiring a couple of guys to whack __." Does it count as conspiracy or something like that if no killing will be made or even really planned until after the person ordering it has died?
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Quote:Dead Man Walking: Takashi Mori, 48, a Japanese man living in the Philippines, allegedly faked his death in order to claim insurance money from a company in his home country. But he was later found to be alive and well.
Case closed? No. A judge at a court in Manila Metropolitan Trial Court recently examined all the evidence in the case, and concluded that there was no proof that Mori and his alleged co-conspirators faked his death. The judge wrote a two-page judgment explaining that he was dismissing charges that the Japanese man and his associates had falsified public documents in Manila, Kyodo news agency reported.
This must be the first case in history of a live man winning a court case which appears to hinge on the fact that he is, in fact, dead.
One wonders what sort of pleasantries they exchanged?
"Thank you, M'lud."
"Not at all. Rest in peace, Mr. Mori."
On another tangent, I've wondered from time to time what legal difficulties would result if somebody added a clause to his will devoting some of his estate to finance a contract assassination. "Upon my death, I direct that $500,000 be applied to hiring a couple of guys to whack __." Does it count as conspiracy or something like that if no killing will be made or even really planned until after the person ordering it has died?
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.