[quote]If you leave your car in the street open and with the keys on the contact, and someone comes, steals your car, runs over someone and kills him, you won't be charged by homicide. You might be charged for negligence, in case you didn't have any good reason to leave the car like that, but not homicide. [/quote]

It's not so easy. Here in Italy we got several sentences of such case, the court decided in many cases which the owner was jountly responsible even if not equally....