I rarely think assasination, but I am willing to bet small amount of money that is exactly what it was bases on the little information we have thus far.
It doesn’t have to be an assassination, paying off the guards that watch him to walk away and let his current mental state run it’s course is enough.
While you can still likely be charged with something it’s not clear what it is, negligent manslaughter doesn’t fit and I don’t know if you can be charged with murder for an outcome you don’t have direct control off, well the can charge you with anything but conviction on this account would be a very interesting case.
That said in this case I think it’s way more likely that this wasn’t anything besides a colossal cockup by the DOC/DOJ guards assigned to the suicide watch.
Heck I really wonder if there is a correlation between say the NFL season or any other sport for that matter and how many people die in custody.
I’m cynically willing to bet that during say march madness you might have an actual statistically significant hike in prison fatalities due to guards who should have been there to intervene slipping away to somewhere to catch up on a game.
That’s an incredible statement to make, and I have no idea why you’d be defending the guards. The idea that someone can’t be charged for an indirect harm that they took no effort to avoid, that plausibly led to the outcome is absolutely absurd and is likely the reasoning why so many CEOs walk around freely.
Expressing awareness of something and taking no preventative measures is certainly damning in one perspective.
I’m not defending the guards, I’m wondering what is the offense that those who would presumably paid them off would be charged with other than bringing a government official.
I don’t know what you could charge a person who disabled a safety feature.
I don’t know what you could charge a person who wants to avoid responsibility for a crime.
I mean, crimes are serious, if the complexity of charging a person exceeds the willingness of the government to prosecute, what does that say about the government?
Everyone is effectively looking the other way?
Those officials could be charged with misprision, depending on the evidence. Those officials could be charged with negligence. Those officials could be named and shamed so that they may never be employed. The payer himself could be charged crimes involving malice aforethought if there was evidence.
The US government is an extremely powerful entity, for which the members of which are choosing to act like cowards?
