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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
21st Mar, 2024 04:06:36 PM
[Ignore brainfart]
Edited by eroock
WarJay77
(Troper Knight)
21st Mar, 2024 04:25:37 PM
That would make it read "the intended target or the one who committed it", which... doesn't mean what you're saying it would.
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ThrawnCA
Since: Jan, 2018
22nd Mar, 2024 04:27:17 AM
This is similar to a query in January
. Misplaced Retribution may be the closest match.
A person discovers that his teenage daughter had sex with a member of the school staff. He murders the person he believes to be the culprit, but he got the wrong person. This is not Murder by Mistake; his mistake is choosing the wrong person, not killing a person he had no intention of killing.