conjoined twins commit murder and a court finds him/her guilty what happens to the innocent half?

Answer 1

They both go free, and are sentenced to a life long ordeal of being joined together.

Answer 2

In England & Wales the matter would be considered according to all the detailed facts of the incident. If it can be shown that the second twin had no involvement whatsoever and could not have stopped the incident from occuring then there would be grave problems presented to the sentencing judge. The judge would not be able to forciby imprison the inncocent twin. The law recognises that some guilty people can escape justice in certain instances such as this but the law can never accept that an innocent person is incarcerated for an offence they did not commit. Your example is very novel and probably entirely academic. I am not aware that a similar case has been tried in England & Wales. However if it was tried then there could well be issues of a psychological nature to explore in preparing a defence. You must bear in mind that in most practical situations it would be arguable that the twins had acted together.

Answer 3

Much more simple. From your statement I construe that only one of the twins is guilty of murder. I must also assme the second party was not involved in the murder (or it would be pointless asking) and let me also assume they cooperated (therefore are not guilty of anything else)
Then the overiding factor in Law is you cannot sentence an innocent person = therefore regardless they cannot be put in prison.

Of course, if the second twin was found guilty of something and got a year or whatever, then they could both serve that sentence and the first twin would have it reduced from theirs.

Answer 4

it depends where they are co-joined, eg if they are co-joined at the hip,then one ,the baddie could quite conceivably drug the other,at the head there is not much chance of that ,ergo no alibi, because they could not be separated at the time of the offence ,they would both be found guilty, has they presumably both share the same d.na profile it would be a hard prosecution to bring to a successful conclusion, as for the one who did not pull the trigger,then the guilt would be shared, one could not commit a crime without the other being incapacitated in some way, so therefore they would both be guilty and share the same cell. regards LF

Answer 5

Damn!-good question. But I don't think there could really be an innocent half.... i mean if one half disagreed i'm sure he could prevent his mate from doing it. And anyway.... they probably think so much alike anyway- just from being together all the time... i don't think they could disagree on such a huge issue. Hey, but when the witness is called up in court.... would be weird huh... imagine. But could they ever really hate each other!?- bein so close n...DAMN!!- im thinkin about this way too much! What a stupid question man!!- I have a report to write.

Answer 6

This question can not be asked as it assumes too much. It assumes that they committed murder and that a court found only one guilty or innocent. Therefore it cannot be anything other than a rhetorical question.

Answer 7

The guilty one would get off free of charge due to the fact that it would breach the human rights of the innocent one.

Answer 8

Such an easy answer. The innocent one could sit on the other side of the prison bars, and be a permanent vistitor. Stupid boy

Answer 9

The same thing that happens to innocent Iraq people that happen to be in the vicinity of an insurgent. Killed on the spot. No matter if it is a child or an old person. Just murdered right there on the spot.

Answer 10

First nobody is innocent. Secondly the twin was an accessory to murder so it doesn't matter.