78 year old arrested for murder of burglar, *Update: Cleared of all charge but still faces strife,

[palou]

VGPolyglot said:

palou said:

A fine would work, perhaps?

Criminally, nothing wrong, simply classify it as disorderly conduct.

But why a fine at all? If he did nothing bad I don't think he should get any punitive repercussions.

I see it as disincentivization, I guess not everyone's for measures like that.

 

The important point for me is that it's *officially* illegal - to help build the collective conscience that it's a bad thing, that you should avoid, if at all possible.