In cases where the
omitter has a duty to act, she may be liable as an accessory, if she encouragers by her omission.
or an
omitter's omission, the magnitude of the risk imposed by the
Moore sees omissions as nothing more than deceptive labels that attribute eventlike or cause-like characteristics to an individual's failure to act, when in fact the event or cause in question is something else: a force of nature, the normal course of events, or the actions of another that the
omitter (had he acted) would have kept from causing harm.
= 15, p < .04 TABLE 3 Brand Equity ([beta]) by Accuracy of Buying the Brand Average Brand Equity Standard Accuracy Group ([beta]) Deviation n Accurate Buyer .180 .34 374 Inaccurate Buyer (
Omitter) -.008 .29 27 Accurate Nonbuyer .008 .31 86 Inaccurate Nonbuyer (Telescoper .160 .35 73 or Projecter) Total .142 .34 560 F = 8.07; d.f.
expectation that the
omitter would act to prevent the harm.
7-letter examples include BASSIST, CLEANER, DIRTIED, EVENTER, GITTERN, OMITTED,
OMITTER, PERSIST, RASPIER and SUBSIST.
If the willful blindness doctrine is applied to omissions, the
omitter has no choice but to investigate her suspicion.
Yes, although plainly not a killer of B because A's dancing is not "causally relevant to B's death."(112) Does the fact that A is an actor at t preclude A being an
omitter at t?
Omissions result in criminal liability only when the
omitter has a duty to the victim.