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I came across the case of Sarah Harris a 25-year-old Marilyn woman who died in 2022 with two fast acting surgical
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anesthetics in her system evidence suggested her boyfriend a prominent oral surgeon named Dr James Ryan provided her
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the drugs from his office and Ryan soon found himself facing a murder charge we've never heard of known as depraved
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heart murder the subcategory of second degree murder with a Twist to prove depraved heart murder prose computers do
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not have to prove intent let's say you do something that causes someone's death even if you don't intend to kill them or
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even want them to die they can still convict you of murder assuming they can prove you acted with extreme
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indifference to human life in other words if they can prove you knew your actions would likely be deadly but you
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didn't care if I take a gun and just randomly shoot it into a crowd I may not necessarily want or care that anybody
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dies but that is such a grossly Reckless act that someone's likely to die as a surgeon James Ryan would have known
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those drugs he provided to Sarah were potentially fatal and prosecutors told the jury it doesn't even matter if he
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simply brought her the drugs or actually put them in her body either way they said if he knowingly gave her access to
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them it was like handing her a loaded gun