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...leave the scene and keep shooting people - something almost no murderer does - is different from assuming that a person who has long been identified as a threat, as Cho had, won't hurt someone. The fateful decisions that cost the lives of 30 more people at Virginia Tech weren't made on Monday morning; they were made in the previous 18 months...
...From a legal standpoint, this distinction is crucial. As law professor Michael Krauss of George Mason University in Virginia points out, "We never judge negligence in hindsight. We always judge it in foresight." And you can make a good case that the Virginia Tech cops and other employees who knew of Cho's erratic, self-destructive, and possibly criminal behavior since the fall of 2005 should have done more to help him or expel...
...lived in the same suite as Cho told CNN on Tuesday that he had stalked at least three women. Virginia Tech police chief Wendell Flinchum said yesterday that two women contacted campus police in 2005 to say Cho had made inappropriate contact with them. Cops had to interrogate Cho twice in December 2005, once about the alleged stalking and once a day later, when an acquaintance of Cho's called the police to say he might be suicidal...
...rational legal system, the school would be held accountable for its errors. But Virginia Tech is a state institution, and Virginia is a state where the doctrine of sovereign immunity remains quite robust. That doctrine, a relic of English common law, essentially says the state can do no wrong because the state creates the law and thus cannot be subject to it. Many states have relaxed sovereign immunity and made it possible for victims of, say, botched operations to sue state hospitals. But Krauss of George Mason University says the Virginia Tech victims' families would probably have to seek...
...have gotten. NBC was under criticism all day today for its decision to air parts of the macabre video rant that had been mailed to the network by Cho Seung-Hui, who may have shot it in the two hours between his two lethal rampages on the Virginia Tech campus Monday. The video was riveting. And inevitably, also revolting. Millions watched it last night. Today came the recriminations...