The 27th amendment was ratified largely because a college student got a C on a term paper

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Imagine a situation where the victim is e.g. fatally shot by an independently acting assailant a split second before someone drops an anvil on him. Why should either of the killers get entirely off the hook merely because of the random order of events?[/quote]

Because you’d have no way of determining what actually killed him, so you charge both assailants with attempted murder.