On necessity as a defense to homicide in Regina v. Dudley and Stephens

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07/20/2008

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Table of Contents On necessity as a defense to homicide in Regina v. Dudley and Stephens
 Table of Contents

 
  1. Floodgate necessity scenarios.
  2. Destruction of property to avert peril to a community or destruction of a community to avert peril to a larger community.
  3. Translating ex post RDS into an FN.
  4. Contrasting the ex post and ex ante floodgate renditions of RDS with BFN.
  5. Implications.
  6. Difference in principle between RDS and BFN.
  7. 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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