This is a Law?

This has been around for almost a century?

• A man who fatally punched a House of Blues patron outside the River North venue in November 2023 was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, according to court records. Jamie Miller, 32, was originally charged with murder. But prosecutors were unlikely to win that charge at trial, based on nearly a century of Illinois case law holding that a person cannot reasonably expect a single punch to kill someone.

  Miller’s sentence will be cut in half under state law, and he will also receive credit for 912 days spent on electronic monitoring and in jail while awaiting trial, according to an order from Judge Mariano Reyna.

That's a Hell of an assumption because we've known a few Golden Gloves fighters and more than a few street brawlers, and we always assumed that they could kill someone with their bare hands if the decided to go that route. In fact, killing someone with bare hands accounts for more murders than rifles most years, so the possibility is there for anyone who cares to research it. 

Giving this "freebie" to criminals who "didn't know" after they've spent years perfecting the ability to end a fight as quickly as possible is questionable at best, irresponsible at worst. 

But maybe we can use if for the Street Vigilante Committee in the future?