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Re: Undetermined Accidental?
Posted by:
ForensicEEnMD (IP Logged)
Date: February 05, 2007 05:00PM
Seems to me like a whole lot of problems associated with trying to use a single or two word discriptor in classifying a fire. Why do we continually try to do this?
Wouldn't an accidential fire with an indeterminate point of origin be a better discriptor? And, would it not behoove all to go on and list the variable indeterminate possibilities, as well as the justifications for accidental.
As a trier of fact, I would have no problems convicting someone who confesses later to a crime that was called accendential given the decision process that reached there and a valid alternate confession.
Otherwise, I agree with Avatoism. No fire could ever be classified as anything but Undetermined, unless you set it yourself, or watched it being set (Which could still have intent problems).