{"id":5487,"date":"1999-07-19T02:06:42","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-11-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:25","slug":"1-11-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-11-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.11.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.11<\/strong>.  Two brothers are involved in a murder.  Though<br \/>\nit&#8217;s clear that one of them actually committed the crime, neither can be<br \/>\npunished.  (This is different from #1.78.)  (from &#8220;Unreasonable Doubt,&#8221; by<br \/>\nStanley Ellin)<\/p>\n<p>1.11 answer:  One of the brothers (A) confesses to the murder.  At his<br \/>\ntrial, his brother (B) is called as the only defense witness; B immediately<br \/>\nconfesses, in graphic detail, to having committed the crime.  The defense<br \/>\nlawyer refuses to have the trial stopped, and A is acquitted under the<br \/>\n&#8220;reasonable doubt&#8221; clause.  Immediately afterward, B goes on trial for the<br \/>\nmurder; A is called as the only defense witness and <em>he<\/em> confesses.<br \/>\nB is declared innocent; and though everyone knows that <em>one<\/em> of them<br \/>\ndid it, how can they tell who?  Further, neither can be convicted of perjury<br \/>\nuntil it&#8217;s decided which of them did it&#8230;  I don&#8217;t know if that would<br \/>\nactually work under the US legal system, but someone else who heard the<br \/>\nstory said that his father was on the jury for a <em>very<\/em> similar case<br \/>\nin New York some years ago.  Mark Brader points out that the brothers might<br \/>\nbe convicted of conspiracy to commit perjury or to obstruct justice, or<br \/>\nsomething of that kind.<\/p>\n<p>1.11 variant answer:  Scott Purdy says an <cite>L.A. Law<\/cite> episode<br \/>\nhad a similar plot: A petty criminal and a mob boss were accused of<br \/>\nmurdering someone.  The lawyers offered to drop the charges on the criminal<br \/>\nif he&#8217;d testify against the boss.  He said he would, got his charges<br \/>\ndropped, and confessed on the stand.  Both got away without being punished:<br \/>\nthe charges couldn&#8217;t be reinstated for the one, and there was reasonable<br \/>\ndoubt for the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.11. Two brothers are involved in a murder. Though it&#8217;s clear that one of them actually committed the crime, neither can be punished. (This is different from #1.78.) (from &#8220;Unreasonable Doubt,&#8221; by Stanley Ellin) 1.11 answer: One of the brothers (A) confesses to the murder. At his trial, his brother (B) is called as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5484,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5487","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15747,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5487\/revisions\/15747"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}