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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7331899" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'm always impressed by the ability of the PC's to not only get in legal trouble, but to compound their legal trouble by behaving absolutely bizarrely, often in an effort to avoid legal trouble.   I have some knowledge of the law, specifically for this sort of thing, but invariably the PC's manage to get so creative with their activities, that I'm pretty darn sure they are guilty of something, I just don't know what it is.   So I'm hoping some posters who are lawyers or who have law enforcement background can help me out.Suppose that someone drops a person off at a hospital.   The person is tied up, has 4 gun shot wounds, but has been very expertly patched up - bullets removed, sutures performed.   Naturally, the hospital wants to know who this person is, why they have 4 gun shot wounds, and why they have been apparently kidnapped.   The person dropping this person off explains that the person that they shot is a dangerous psychotic that tried to attack them, that they shot the person in self-defense, proceeded to administer medical attention to save the persons life, and then decided that they should probably take them to a hospital.   They did all of this without in any way notifying the local authorities that any of this had taken place, and in fact the events occurred some 30 miles away and they don't quite remember where.Needtheless to say, the police are highly suspicious of all of this, and detain the individuals for questioning.But what can they charge them with that will actually stick?   They have a permit for the gun.   They have clearly attempted to render aid.   They have multiple witnesses that the attack was in self-defense and one of the witnesses has a severe head wound, ostensibly inflicted by the tied up person.   Additionally, when the person wakes up they are in fact going to prove to be a raving lunatic, and further when they finally are able to identify the individual, they'll find he's a known felon and parole violator.   So I suspect charges of assault of various sort aren't going to stick in court and any prosecution of that sort would fall apart.   But it seems like the whole tying someone up and transporting them ought to be unlawful even in self-defense, but they did bring him to hospital, albeit not exactly the nearest one.   And it seems like they ought to have some obligation to report all of this in a more timely fashion, but I'm not exactly sure what that crime is.The police have plenty of reason to be upset with these jokers and would like to throw the book at them, but the prosecutor doesn't want to waste his time by reaching too far and charging the perps with crimes like attempted murder or kidnapping that aren't likely to stick in front of a jury.So what all charges can he bring?</blockquote>

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