From the news report I gathered that he could be in trouble. Regarding statute of limitations on murder, I pulled this from
this website:
Every state has a statute of limitations for crimes, but the laws differ from state to state. In addition, different offenses are controlled by different periods of limitation.
However, no state has a statute of limitations on first degree murder. It can be prosecuted at any time. For other degrees of murder, there may be a time after which a prosecution cannot be brought. For example, in your state, Florida, second degree murder, third degree murder, and manslaughter all provide for a four year statute of limitations.
First degree murder, if I'm not mistaken, is defined as premeditated murder. If it can be proven that Blythe intended that the victim be killed by his student, if he did indeed die, then he can still be prosecuted. Actually, since the victim was likely still alive at the end of the video, I wonder if they could get him on first degree murder for failing to help him, because at the end of that video Blythe was very exacting in the way he continued recording for posterity. At that point there was no doubt that he was aware of the man's critical condition, and his decision to not provide aid would have been a deliberate and calculated one.
This honestly reminds me of something I would have read about in
Homicide, both in subject (the legal aspect) and from the kind of reaction it stirred. It's hard not to lose some faith in humanity when you see people act so sickly and callously toward other human beings.
