If Dr. Conrad Murray was a corporation, would he have been sent to jail?

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her209

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Let's say a fictional Murray Corp had killed Michael Jackson due to negligence, what would theoretically happen to the corporation - the CEO goes to jail?
 

momeNt

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Munky

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He'd get slapped with a settlement fine and continue business as usual... and that's IF the justice department even bothered to investigate the issue in the first place.
 

Kadarin

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He'd get slapped with a settlement fine and continue business as usual... and that's IF the justice department even bothered to investigate the issue in the first place.

This is obviously the correct answer.
 
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It can sell faulty products to consumers.

In that sitation if it can be showed that anyone had knowledge of a deadly defect and they wilfully ignored it to allow the product to still sell I'm sure they could be charged individually. I'm pretty sure this has happened in the past but can't find an example.
 

Dulanic

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Let's say a fictional Murray Corp had killed Michael Jackson due to negligence, what would theoretically happen to the corporation - the CEO goes to jail?

CEO's only go to jail if it involves tons of money, and only then if they pissed off the wrong person. They don't ever go to jail for negligence.
 

woolfe9999

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Let's say a fictional Murray Corp had killed Michael Jackson due to negligence, what would theoretically happen to the corporation - the CEO goes to jail?

Individuals who commit criminal acts are subject to individual penalty, whether or not they are acting as an agent for corporate entity. Your hypothetical CEO would be sent to jail if the CEO was guilty of a crime. Individuals are not protected from criminal liability by hiding behind a corporate veil.

In addition, the corporation can suffer vicarious criminal liability by imputing the acts of its agents to the corporation itself. Typically criminal liability involves fines as you obviously cannot put a corporation in jail.

Often times there are available civil remedies against the corporation in cases like these. Such remedies can include not only monetary damages, but injunctions and in some cases, involuntary dissolution of the corporation.
 

Atreus21

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Individuals who commit criminal acts are subject to individual penalty, whether or not they are acting as an agent for corporate entity. Your hypothetical CEO would be sent to jail if the CEO was guilty of a crime. Individuals are not protected from criminal liability by hiding behind a corporate veil.

In addition, the corporation can suffer vicarious criminal liability by imputing the acts of its agents to the corporation itself. Typically criminal liability involves fines as you obviously cannot put a corporation in jail.

Often times there are available civil remedies against the corporation in cases like these. Such remedies can include not only monetary damages, but injunctions and in some cases, involuntary dissolution of the corporation.

I think that answers the question.
 

Fern

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Individuals who commit criminal acts are subject to individual penalty, whether or not they are acting as an agent for corporate entity. Your hypothetical CEO would be sent to jail if the CEO was guilty of a crime. Individuals are not protected from criminal liability by hiding behind a corporate veil.

In addition, the corporation can suffer vicarious criminal liability by imputing the acts of its agents to the corporation itself. Typically criminal liability involves fines as you obviously cannot put a corporation in jail.

Often times there are available civil remedies against the corporation in cases like these. Such remedies can include not only monetary damages, but injunctions and in some cases, involuntary dissolution of the corporation.

To the above I would that you'll find that in professions (medicine, accounting & law), the corporate form will not protect the individual from any wrong doing while practicing their profession.

I.e., poor analogy/hypothetical. The corporate form is disregarded.

Fern
 
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