People v. Arzon
Supreme Court of New York County
401 N.Y.S.2d 156 (1978)
Relevant factsFree
Arzon intentionally set fire to a couch on an abandoned building's fifth floor, and while firefighters battled that fire and attempted evacuation, they encountered fatal smoke from an unrelated fire on the second floor that Arzon was not shown to have started, with the fifth-floor fire having blocked one of the building's access and evacuation routes.
IssueFree
Whether an individual is criminally liable if his conduct is a sufficiently direct cause of another's death which should have been foreseen as being reasonably related to the individual's acts.