if there is happens to be a conjoined twin who commits murder buy poisining wil other half go prison?

Question

if the other conjoined twin had no idea that his other half was commiting murder and when he found out and reported it have to do the time aswell.

Answer 1

Yes - there is no way the twin could not have witnessed it, and will at least be charged as an accessory after the fact, if not as a co-conspirator.

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

The other twin would die too as they both share the same blood supply, so in poisoning the other he would also be poisoning himself.

I've just reread your question and realised you didn't mean to kill the twin. I don't know how a conjoined twin could possibly not know what the other was doing, since they're together literally every second.

Answer 4

I don't think that any court of law would accept that the other twin had no idea of what was happening, so he would be found guilty of aiding and abetting, if only by not taking action to prevent the murder -- eg. walking away and dragging his brother with him.
This would be the sort of emotive case which would sway a jury to return a verdict of not guilty for both twins.

Answer 5

It would appear that "Lix" has totally misread the question.
One of the twins has murdered a third party and I don't know the answer other than it is a fascinating question and scenario which would have the legal brains in pure turmoil trying to find an answer.

Answer 6

I was watching something on the discovery channel this week about one set of twins that share one body (two arms/two legs one deformed torso)

They seemed to function like regular people, they drive a car (even though one twin can only control the hand on their side.

They touched base on odd subject like dating/sex and using the bathroom... They are only 16 but it seems really hard to get through the day.

In school they test them a special way and they had to take two road tests

thought it was interesting

Answer 7

No, how in heck would one be able to sneak off and commit a murder with out the other knowing?

I have a better question.... if one of the twins beats up the other, will they be charged with battery? How can the one be punished?

And I don't even want to know what would happen if one was homosexual.... yikes.

Answer 8

Imagine the possibilities, that if you spent as much time thinking about how to cure cancer, or feed the hungry children of the world, or alternatives to gasoline, as you did in coming up with this question, how much better the world would be!

Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life here.

Answer 9

The 'innocent' twin would have to be aiding and abetting unless he/she was knocked out. If this was the case, murder would have been almost impossible anyway.

Answer 10

Well it would be a bit difficult to separate them wouldn't it. Unfortunately both sides would go to Gaol, unless they came up with some idea to incarcerate them in a special unit. I think one has to use a bit of commonsense here.