February 5, 2014

Hi, you make pretty amazing metas, so I thought I could ask for your/or your follower’s insight. I am no law expert, but as far as I understood Sherlock did manslaughter (not murder) which would result in imprisonment for years, depending on the judge/circumstances – so why would he be basically send off to a suicide mission/his death when there is no death penalty in the UK? (and causing riots is no argument for capital punishment either as he could be placed in solitary confinement)

As it happens, I was talking to a friend who IS a lawyer about this just last week! Of course, she’s a US attorney, not UK, so I’m not sure…