On necessity as a defense to homicide in Regina v. Dudley and Stephens
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Table of Contents
- Floodgate necessity scenarios.
- Destruction of property to avert peril to a community or destruction of a community to avert peril to a larger community.
- Translating ex post RDS into an FN.
- Contrasting the ex post and ex ante floodgate renditions of RDS with BFN.
- Implications.
- Difference in principle between RDS and BFN.
- An argument in defense of Dudley and Stephens.
Abstract
The present paper asks and addresses the questions: what principles, if any, distinguish regina v. dudley and stephens (RDS) from scenarios in which necessity ought to be a defense to homicide? Were dudley and stephens guilty of murder? After laying out the relevant facts of RDS I will answer the question by considering variations on what I call "floodgate necessity" scenarios (FNs). In RDS, dudley, stephens, Brooks, and Parker, are stranded on a boat. On their twentieth day at sea, having been without food for eight days and having had very little water, dudley kills Parker.
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