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Jane McMurdock, prosecuting attorney for the city of Silicon Valley, announced today the
indictment of Randy Samuels on charges of manslaughter. The charge involves the death of Bart
Matthews, who was killed last May by an assembly-line robot. Matthews worked as a robot operator
at Cybernetics Inc., in Silicon Heights. He was crushed to death when the robot he was operating
malfunctioned and started to wave its "arm" violently

2. Samuels was formerly employed as a programmer at Silicon Techtronics Inc., and According to
the indictment, Samuels wrote the particular piece of computer program responsible for the robot
malfunction. Samuels negligently misinterpreted the formula in robot’s program, leading to this
gruesomedeath.

3. The Sentinel-Observer was unable to contact Samuels for comment. "He is deeply depressed
about all this," his live-in girlfriend told us over the phone, "but Randy believes he will be acquitted
when he gets a chance to tell his side of the story

.4. The Sentinel-Observer learned today that Randy Samuels and others who worked on the "killer
robot" project at Silicon Techtronics Inc. were under tremendous pressure to finish the robot
software by January 1 of this year.

5. According to informed source, Martha, there was an enormous amount of friction between
robotics division chief Ray Johnson and the Robbie CX30 project manager Sam Reynolds.

6. A group of programmers who call themselves the Justice for Randy Samuels Committee
distributed documents that show Silicon Techtronics obligated itself to deliver robots that would
"cause no bodily injury to the human operator."

7. This document proves that Samuels was not legally responsible for the death of Bart Matthews,
and in the event of the exceptional conditions which potentially contain the risk of bodily injury (see
Section 5.2.4 and all of its subsections), the human operator will be able to enter a sequence of
command codes, as described in the relevant sections of the functional specification (see Section
3.5.2), which will arrest robot motion long before bodily injury can actually occur."