Realistically, all of them would be considered guilty of the crime by simply being in the kitchen when it happened.
A conviction hungry DA would use the same laws that apply murder charges to the guy who drove the car. If it happened, and you could have theoretically known it was going to happen, and you still participated in any conceivable way, you also legally committed the crime.
This is one of the many ways this country persecutes black and brown people to feed the prison labor industry.
Working in a kitchen isn’t a felony though, nor is serving food normally. Now, if someone said they spit in the food and you knew about it but still served it, that could be a felony. If that ‘spit’ turned out to be rat poison and killed a guy, that’s felony murder.
There has to be a level of participation before felony murder happens. If you knew about something bad happening and did nothing to stop it. But, they have to be able to prove that you knew about it, or at least convince the judge/jury
Agree with you about it being used disproportionately on non-white though, there’s some fucked up felony murder charges out there.
Head chef, venue manager, and operator are all likely to face criminal charges for something like that. Regulators do not fuck around, least here in aus
Hypothetically, how would the police determine who on the staff accidentally added rat poison to their dish if there were no witnesses?
Realistically, all of them would be considered guilty of the crime by simply being in the kitchen when it happened.
A conviction hungry DA would use the same laws that apply murder charges to the guy who drove the car. If it happened, and you could have theoretically known it was going to happen, and you still participated in any conceivable way, you also legally committed the crime.
This is one of the many ways this country persecutes black and brown people to feed the prison labor industry.
Working in a kitchen isn’t a felony though, nor is serving food normally. Now, if someone said they spit in the food and you knew about it but still served it, that could be a felony. If that ‘spit’ turned out to be rat poison and killed a guy, that’s felony murder.
There has to be a level of participation before felony murder happens. If you knew about something bad happening and did nothing to stop it. But, they have to be able to prove that you knew about it, or at least convince the judge/jury
Agree with you about it being used disproportionately on non-white though, there’s some fucked up felony murder charges out there.
Head chef, venue manager, and operator are all likely to face criminal charges for something like that. Regulators do not fuck around, least here in aus