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<p>It was the railroad's property that was trespassed-upon, and therefore the railroad can choose to pursue a complaint of trespassing, if they feel it necessary. The county could prosecute independently, but in such cases, if the property owner doesn't opt to prosecute, neither will the county.</p><p>The only other possible charge, in any imagination, <u>beyond</u> trespassing, would be involuntary manslaughter against the woman's friend. No other charge even remotely fits the circumstances. There's simply no evidence to support any prosecution beyond trespassing.</p><p>The attitude of your countrymen (all 39 of them) towards American capitol punishment is steeped in suspicion that the legal proceedings here are unfair, corrupt and bigoted. According to most Europeans and you Far East Europeans (east of Europe, you see), we Americans are far too draconian in our sentencing. Yet in this case, you harshly demand the friend be charged and prosecuted under any and every possible law in order to punish his stupidity no matter what (shall we send him to Botany Bay?). Once Australia reaches a population level where overloading the courts with needless prosecutions and prison over-crowding begins to matter, you may think otherwise about wasting a prosecutor's time and tax-payer money to crucify this individual.</p><p>If the Canadian railroad opts not to pursue a formal trespassing complaint, that's it, he WON'T be prosecuted.</p>
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