Calling the police on someone in the US is a specific intent to kill, thus murder. You know what's likely to happen and you make that call. That's murder.
> Calling the police on someone in the US is a specific intent to kill, thus murder.
It may be evidence from which intent might be inferred, but on its own without additional evidence it is probably not strong enough to support intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
> You know what's likely to happen and you make that call.
That's not, in and of itself, intent. Intent means it's your goal, not merely something you know is a likely effect and accept.
> That's murder.
Sure, but absent an actual goal of killing, it's murder of the depraved indifference type, which is generally second degree, not the intent to kill type, which is first degree. (Though if the false report itself is a felony, it's murder of the felony murder type, which is usually first degree.)
It may be evidence from which intent might be inferred, but on its own without additional evidence it is probably not strong enough to support intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
> You know what's likely to happen and you make that call.
That's not, in and of itself, intent. Intent means it's your goal, not merely something you know is a likely effect and accept.
> That's murder.
Sure, but absent an actual goal of killing, it's murder of the depraved indifference type, which is generally second degree, not the intent to kill type, which is first degree. (Though if the false report itself is a felony, it's murder of the felony murder type, which is usually first degree.)