Board 8 > Alright, this is bothering me: if a conjoined twin commits a crime...

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How do met out the punishment?

Like if one commits a murder and the other didn't do anything, how does that work? Like, are they considered one person and therefore they're both guilty?

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guilt by association

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Guilty by gear.

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Accomplice before the fact

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It's not like they can claim ignorance...

Yeah, but what if they're just there and all of a sudden he pulls a gun out of a drawer and shoots someone. Like, not enough time to reach and stop the twin.

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the only thing I can confidently answer is that they are not considered one person. If conjoined twins are capable of driving and want to get their license, they both have to take their own test because they're legally different people

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I can't imagine that the twin would not have even considered that the other might do that.

There's no way the gun could have been put in the vicinity without their knowledge.

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Right, but knowing a gun is in a certain position doesn't mean A) you have enough time to react or B) you know what the gun will be used for.

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if one gets drunk does that mean BOTH get drunk?

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Okay, the two twins are on different computers. One starts hitting on an underaged girl in a chatroom, who's really an FBI agent. The other is looking up guides to MGS3 on GameFAQs. The FBI arrests them; what happens now that one isn't guilty, and didn't even know, of the other's crime?

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Wasn't there a Tales from the Crypt episode about this?

the second is at least an accessory to murder

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From: TheRock1525 | #011
Right, but knowing a gun is in a certain position doesn't mean A) you have enough time to react or B) you know what the gun will be used for.

or in the case of conjoined twins like this, they may not even physically be able to stop their twin's actions

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From: WazzupGenius00 | #008
the only thing I can confidently answer is that they are not considered one person. If conjoined twins are capable of driving and want to get their license, they both have to take their own test because they're legally different people

how would the one on the right even drive???

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if one twin tries to sue the other, how do the proceedings go.

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From: shadosneko | #017
how would the one on the right even drive???

They share the driver's seat and one covers one half of the car's controls and the other controls the other half. There are conjoined twins that go to school in the next city over from me that do this

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shadosneko posted...
how would the one on the right even drive???



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Something that bothers me more: how does their sex life work?

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Wait...

What if one is gay and one is straight?

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What if you murder a conjoined twin? Is that two counts of homicide?

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From: Uglyface2 | #014
Wasn't there a Tales from the Crypt episode about this?

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What if one conjoined twin wants to go to an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner, but the other twin has a reception for Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on the same night?

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what if one wants to look at porn and the other wants to go to church

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What if one twin wants to post on GameFAQs and the other one wants to post on Facebook?

What if one can't see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and the other doesn't get why kids love Apple Jacks.

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From: FFDragon | #020
shadosneko posted...
how would the one on the right even drive???

yeah, them

and yeah me and my friends have already had all these discussions. If you have sex with one of them is it a threesome (they share one vagina); if one wants to have sex with you and the other doesn't, is it rape; if one masturbates is it also incest, etc.

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What if you murder a conjoined twin? Is that two counts of homicide?

Most likely, yes. There have been some situations where a pregnant woman has been killed (intentionally or unintentionally), and two counts of murder or manslaughter were charged on the alleged killer. I'm not sure if one has ever been convicted of both counts or not. And whether or not the fetus should count as a human life has been up for debate for decades, while I don't think there is a debate about conjoined twins.

As for the original question, I'd imagine the other twin would be an accessory. Considering that accessories often get less jail time, I wonder how jail time would work.

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