After deliberating for just over two and a half hours the jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty of manslaughter. |
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The householder may be guilty of manslaughter and liable to be brought before the criminal courts. |
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He denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
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In this case the jury could not agree on the charge of manslaughter and were discharged from giving a verdict. |
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He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and was ordered to be detained in a secure hospital. |
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On re-arraignment he pleaded guilty to her manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility, and that plea was accepted by the Crown. |
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The case comes days after a group of MPs called for road deaths and injuries to be treated as manslaughter or grievous bodily harm. |
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Alternatively the defence say she may have acted under provocation of a type which reduces murder to manslaughter in law. |
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Moore and Girling denied murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter under provocation. |
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The French government has asked prosecutors to open a preliminary manslaughter inquiry. |
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His lawyer has suggested that the jury could convict him of manslaughter by gross negligence for not rescuing her. |
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The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter and Dunphy was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. |
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He was actually convicted of 2nd degree murder, reduced on appeal to manslaughter. |
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That conviction was downgraded to manslaughter on appeal and he was given a five-year sentence. |
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A teenage thug has been convicted of manslaughter after he attacked a pensioner on his way home from a crown green bowls night. |
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He is charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and owning a mischievous dog that killed a person. |
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Now the club's owner, his partner and two others are facing involuntary manslaughter charges. |
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The Law Commission has recognised the urgent need to reform the law on involuntary manslaughter. |
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Her conviction was later reduced to involuntary manslaughter on appeal and she was allowed to return home to Cheshire. |
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The investigation cites possible offenses, including involuntary manslaughter, assault, battery, dereliction of duty and conspiracy. |
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Should she be found guilty of murder or involuntary manslaughter, she would be repatriated after serving her prison term. |
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He agreed to plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter as the jury selection process was underway. |
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In the unlikely event of this argument being accepted, Betty would still be guilty of involuntary manslaughter on the constructive basis. |
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It should be noted that constructive manslaughter requires the commission of an unlawful act. |
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Traditionally there has been a reluctance to use a driving offence as the unlawful act in constructive manslaughter. |
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After the report, a tribunal of Maryland circuit court judges reduced the homicide charge to manslaughter. |
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The offence of manslaughter generally covers all unlawful homicides which are not murder. |
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The Home Secretary has confirmed that the law on corporate manslaughter will, at long last, be changed. |
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Therefore, the traditional approach might be that he should face his trial again on a charge of murder rather than manslaughter. |
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Ten minutes later a power failure in the High Court brought the manslaughter case to a stop. |
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A North Yorkshire woman is to stand trial at Hull Crown Court after denying a charge of manslaughter. |
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She was sentenced Tuesday in Los Angeles after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter. |
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No charges have yet been brought but conviction for voluntary manslaughter carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison in Brazil. |
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Marin County prosecutors filed a voluntary manslaughter charge in a Dillon Beach shooting after a second judge rejected a murder charge. |
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She was arrested Monday on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter and causing willful harm to a child. |
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He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in an agreement with prosecutors last year. |
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If malice aforethought is lacking the unlawful homicide will be manslaughter. |
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A slaughterman who killed a colleague while they culled sheep during the foot-and-mouth crisis was cleared of manslaughter yesterday. |
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Death by careless driving while under the influence of drink should carry a manslaughter charge? |
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For example, a person of any age or mental function is obliged to pay blood money for a relative who has committed homicide or manslaughter. |
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Despite the fact that Arbuckle was later acquitted of manslaughter after two hung juries, he was essentially blacklisted from Hollywood. |
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In 1867 a Dr Spencer was acquitted of manslaughter after a medication error in which strychnine was dispensed to a patient instead of bismuth. |
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Even manslaughter could be covered by a fine if there were mitigating circumstances, or if the victim were a slave. |
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Everyone knows that murder and manslaughter, kidnapping and terrorism, treason and high treason existed long before today's penal codes. |
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There you might be convicted of manslaughter on the basis of excessive self-defence. |
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The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction for murder and substituted one of manslaughter. |
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Chambers, who was charged with second-degree murder, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, a lesser, but still very serious charge. |
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The lesser charges include first-degree and second-degree manslaughter as well as criminally negligent homicide. |
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On an indictment for manslaughter it appeared that the prisoner was a pilot, and was on board a Portuguese barque sailing down the Thames. |
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Whether an offender deserves to be convicted of murder or manslaughter is for the jury to determine. |
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Any person who intentionally kills another may be prosecuted for murder or manslaughter. |
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It is suggested that such a defendant should be regarded as being guilty of manslaughter and not murder. |
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The most serious offences which Mary may be charged with are murder and manslaughter. |
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The Ministry of Defence should be charged with unlawful killing, manslaughter or murder. |
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The jury took less than two hours to reach a verdict of not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. |
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There were sixteen convictions for manslaughter, one for infanticide, and one for murder. |
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As the accessory foresaw only minor physical harm, he was guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter. |
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He was ordered to be detained without limit later that year after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
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Here are some examples of manslaughter arising from extenuatory considerations in fact. |
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But after a day of discussions with their Queen's Counsels, all three pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. |
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The five officers were acquitted of manslaughter charges on the direction of the trial judge. |
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He is today starting six-and-a-half years in prison after admitting manslaughter and robbery in York earlier this year. |
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Brown was arraigned Wednesday on the charge of first-degree manslaughter, which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. |
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Selling drugs in cahoots with a childhood friend, a disagreement led to manslaughter by gunshot. |
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Secondly, the expert evidence which persuaded the Court of Appeal to quash the murder conviction and substitute manslaughter had not been before the jury. |
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If the jury decided that James lacked malice aforethought, he could still be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, i.e., unlawful killing without malice aforethought. |
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In other words, smoking dope is equivalent to a parking violation but the penalty for peddling it is equal to that for manslaughter or aggravated rape. |
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Williams was ultimately acquitted of aggravated manslaughter charges, but convicted of attempting to cover up the fatal shooting of a limousine driver. |
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A MAN who killed a friend in his flat when he fired a powerful air rifle at him, not realising it was loaded, has been convicted of his manslaughter. |
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Attorney General Jim Hood told reporters after court recessed that prosecutors would ask the judge to allow the jury to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter in the case. |
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Jack has been acquitted of manslaughter and delightedly regales his girlfriend Maggie and their neighbours Lynne and Dennis with a disparaging account of the trial. |
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They could have asked that jurors consider a lesser charge, such as manslaughter, in addition to murder, but opted for an all-or-nothing strategy. |
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White had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible sentence for his crime. |
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The doctor was charged with manslaughter, and the prosecution alleged that he had intended, by himself, to anaesthetise the patient with methohexitone. |
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Two of the team were caught and plead guilty to manslaughter, but due to arm-twisting by the French, the government was forced to transfer them to French custody. |
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He faces charges of multiple manslaughter, abandoning ship, and causing a shipwreck. |
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He faces pending charges for multiple counts of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning ship. |
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Hickok was on trial for manslaughter, and the judge gave the jury two instructions. |
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The seven man, five woman jury rejected a call to convict him of manslaughter on the grounds of his claims that he was provoked by his wife taunting him about affairs. |
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So, too, negligently failing to treat a patient is as culpable as doing so in a negligent manner, and if death results a manslaughter charge could be brought. |
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The girl is charged with manslaughter and is on bail awaiting trial. |
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After four years, two trials, an adoption, and multiple jury scandals, polo mogul John Goodman was found guilty of manslaughter. |
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Her doctor, Raslan Fadl, and father, Mohamed al-bates, from a nearby village, were in court charged with manslaughter. |
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He pled guilty to manslaughter charges and received a two-and-a-half-year sentence. |
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Schettino is on trial for multiple manslaughter, causing a maritime disaster and abandoning ship. |
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Woolley has admitted manslaughter, but denies theft of a shoulder bag. |
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The Crown attorney's reasoning for only charging him with manslaughter was that the he's still a young boy, and the judge wouldn't give him murder one. |
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His trial ended on June 21 with a jury verdict of manslaughter. |
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Charged with voluntary manslaughter, he spent three weeks in jail. |
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She pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter in September. |
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If there is no workable defence of insanity, it is surely wrong to convict a grossly disordered killer of murder when the less stigmatic offence of manslaughter is at hand. |
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It is possible that this would be constructive manslaughter, although there is doubt as to whether an omission can constitute an unlawful and dangerous act for this purpose. |
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Numerous Greek heroes and heroines commit manslaughter in myth. |
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It was common to charge manslaughter and culpable driving together. |
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Would it not be preferable to absorb infanticide into the doctrine of diminished responsibility and allow the prosecution to charge manslaughter in such cases? |
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Each count of manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of 30 years. |
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We submit that at the very highest it was concert to manslaughter. |
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It is to be served concurrent to the sentence for manslaughter, in light of the continuity between the offences, and having regard to the totality principle. |
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A jury later convicted the bounty hunter of involuntary manslaughter. |
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He was sentenced to 14 years in July 1998 for involuntary manslaughter. |
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In May the Government announced plans to publish a draft Bill on corporate manslaughter with the timetable for legislation, plus further details, to be announced this autumn. |
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A hospital doctor has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a teenager who was wrongly given a spinal injection of a cytotoxic drug meant for intravenous use only. |
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She was convicted of manslaughter, but they gave her a suspended sentence. |
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Convicting doctors of manslaughter may satisfy a desire for retribution, but deters careful consideration of the ways of preventing tragedies from recurring. |
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However in sympathetic assistance the charge is often reduced to manslaughter with diminished responsibilities, which ultimately carries a lighter sentence. |
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States, there exists the specific crime of Vehicular or intoxication manslaughter. |
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It is distinguished from voluntary manslaughter by the absence of intention. |
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Involuntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought, either expressed or implied. |
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The District Attorney's office later charged the 57-year-old man with involuntary manslaughter. |
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For his crime, Eliaderani was given the maximum prison sentence of five years after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. |
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He was held on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter by recklessness and negligence. |
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He will be arrested for the involuntary manslaughter of Jackson, who died in June. |
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In some places, including parts of the United States of America, assisted suicide is punishable as manslaughter. |
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The most common type of voluntary manslaughter occurs when a defendant is provoked to commit the homicide. |
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Declan Appleby, 18, was locked up for a minimum of five years and Scott Fullam, 19, for 2' years, both for manslaughter. |
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At his trial, he pleaded not guilty to 13 charges of murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
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It is an offence under common law and is roughly equivalent to the offence of manslaughter in English law. |
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The jury then decides whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty of either murder or manslaughter. |
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Voluntary manslaughter in some jurisdictions is a lesser included offense of murder. |
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Had Barkley done in the Topeka cat, it may have been manslaughter, or catslaughter, I guess, but not murder. |
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The Winnetka man was convicted of second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while driving under the influence of drugs. |
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Its main recommendation was the creation of a US-style system of first-degree and second-degree murder plus a revised definition of manslaughter. |
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In cases of involuntary manslaughter, the actus reus for murder is present but there is insufficient mens rea to establish such a charge. |
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Reckless driving or reckless handling of a potentially lethal weapon may result in a death that is deemed manslaughter. |
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Two months later Fitzsimmons was charged with manslaughter but was acquitted. |
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Jacqueline Cornes of Whimbrel Close, Leegomery, Telford, was jailed for six years after pleading guilty to manslaughter. |
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Capt Francesco Schettino is accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship before all passengers were rescued. |
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Schettino is on trial over the disaster on charges of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. |
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If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter. |
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He was recently convicted of third-degree manslaughter because of his drunken-driving accident. |
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Three directors of a maintenance firm are accused of the manslaughter of academic Sarah Baldwin on a moving walkway which was under repair. |
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The borough council was the first public body in the country to face corporate manslaughter charges. |
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In 2006, council employee Gillian Beckingham and employer Barrow Borough Council were cleared of seven charges of manslaughter. |
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Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. |
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Naja of High Street, West Bromwich, had denied manslaughter and also assaulting his wife causing her actual bodily harm. |
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Corporations can even be convicted of criminal offences, such as fraud and manslaughter. |
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In England and Wales, suicide pact is a partial defense, under section 4 of the Homicide Act 1957, which reduces murder to manslaughter. |
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A person who is driving carefully, but whose car nevertheless hits a child darting out into the street, has not committed manslaughter. |
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Mitchell was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to 10 to 20 years. |
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There is no intent to kill, and a resulting death would not be considered murder, but would be considered involuntary manslaughter. |
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This applied the ratio decidendi in R v O' Grady for murder and R v Majewski for manslaughter. |
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The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed his conviction for murder and substituted a verdict of manslaughter. |
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Beckingham, of Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, was cleared of manslaughter by gross criminal negligence but convicted of a health and safety breach. |
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In R v Creamer, the court said obiter that attempted manslaughter is not an offence known to law. |
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He insisted he thought she was an intruder behind a toilet door in his home and was initially found guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter. |
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A A conviction of culpable homicide, the term for manslaughter in South Africa, carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence. |
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A person guilty of manslaughter is liable to imprisonment for life or for any shorter term. |
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Kennedy was found guilty of manslaughter and appealed on the grounds that there must be an unlawful act which caused the victim's death. |
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This decision paved the way for the trial of public officials on charges of voluntary manslaughter. |
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Thomas A Woods, 25, who was already on parole for voluntary manslaughter, faces a charge of attempted kidnapping. |
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The charges against Rattanavong are involuntary manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm, rather than murder or voluntary manslaughter. |
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He has also been accused of voluntary manslaughter, drug trafficking, and use. |
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Brent has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and a DUI, his second. |
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The malice involved in the crime is transferred to the killing, resulting in a charge of manslaughter. |
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An equivalent, in many American states, to motor manslaughter, is vehicular homicide. |
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The Committee also recommended that manslaughter should be an optional charge for the more serious driving cases. |
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Her father had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and been jailed for a minimum of 10 years. |
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Anthony de Asha pleaded not guilty to murdering his partner Joanne, but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
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Pit boss Malcolm Fyfield, 58, and its former owners MNS Mining both deny gross negligence manslaughter charges. |
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This took place in October 1598, while Jonson was on remand in Newgate Gaol charged with manslaughter. |
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The last trial of a peer in the House of Lords was in 1935, when Lord de Clifford was tried for motor manslaughter. |
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He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility and was ordered to be detained in a secure hospital. |
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For example, at common law, an unlawful homicide committed recklessly would ordinarily constitute the crime of voluntary manslaughter. |
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They got off for murder, but still went down for manslaughter, since that is a crime of basic intent. |
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There was a hung jury in relation to a murder charge against Horton, but she pleaded guilty to manslaughter at a hearing in December. |
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Swellings, known as Swellhead, has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter. |
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Two Italian maintenance workers were jailed yesterday for the manslaughter of a British woman who became entangled in the gears of a moving walkway at a Rome rail station. |
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Criminally negligent manslaughter occurs where there is an omission to act when there is a duty to do so, or a failure to perform a duty owed, which leads to a death. |
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It may not apply when the crime which took place was different from the crime intended, although a charge of manslaughter may be possible in such cases. |
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Fourteen Liverpool fans received convictions for involuntary manslaughter. |
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Although any such offence required compensation, the law made a distinction between intentional and unintentional harm, and between murder and manslaughter. |
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It is normally divided into two categories, constructive manslaughter and criminally negligent manslaughter, both of which involve criminal liability. |
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Legal observers blamed the hung jury on the lack of a manslaughter option. |
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A child under seven years of age is conclusively presumed to be incapable of either murder or manslaughter, no evidence of capacity being admissible. |
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Infanticide now operates as a defence to both murder and manslaughter. |
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The definition of manslaughter differs among legal jurisdictions. |
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In English law, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder. |
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The four ex-employees of the US private security firm were convicted on an array of charges ranging from first degree murder to voluntary manslaughter. |
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There are two main partial defences that reduce murder to manslaughter. |
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Daniel Schofield, 28, who was just three yards from Roy Hanson, 50, when he fired the 15in arrow, claims he fired by accident and denies murder and manslaughter. |
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Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray was arrested on manslaughter charges after three people died following a northern Arizona sweat lodge ceremony he'd led in Oct. |
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The accused was found guilty of premeditated voluntary manslaughter, committing barbaric acts, attempt to set an inhabited house ablaze, and aggravated theft. |
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If jurors accept Roeder's defense, he could be convicted of voluntary manslaughter, a crime that carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. |
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A sixth Blackwater guard pleaded guilty late last year to charges of voluntary manslaughter and attempt to commit manslaughter, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. |
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Attorneys representing State Department Special Agent Christopher Deedy argued against a third trial for manslaughter after a jury acquitted him of murder last year. |
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More than a dozen members of Jackson's family were expected to attend the hearing for Dr Conrad Murray who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. |
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But R v Carey, C and F limits the scope of unlawful act manslaughter. |
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Criminally negligent manslaughter is variously referred to as criminally negligent homicide in the United States, and gross negligence manslaughter in England and Wales. |
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Donnelly, a former motorcross ace from Greencastle, Co Tyrone, who denies the 2012 New Years' Eve manslaughter of the teenager, was released on continuing bail. |
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His next act of manslaughter will be met with the wrath of the Earth Goddess, suggesting a domineering matriarchate embedded within the surface patriarchate. |
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Involuntary manslaughter may be distinguished from accidental death. |
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Farrow admits the manslaughter of the Rev John Suddards but denies murdering the clergyman between February 12 and 15 on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
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Wright knifed Colette while holding their two-year-old daughter in his arms, and was sentenced in August 2005 for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
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The types of different crimes range from those well known ones like manslaughter, murder, theft and robbery to a plethora of regulatory and statutory offences. |
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The English House of Lords sentenced him for manslaughter, but not murder. |
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Bryan Griffiths, 55, is charged with the manslaughter by gross negligence of Warwickshire Hunt member Trevor Morse at Long Marston airfield on March 9 last year. |
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Involuntary manslaughter arises where the accused did not intend to cause death or serious injury but caused the death of another through recklessness or criminal negligence. |
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The definition of manslaughter differs from one jurisdiction to another. |
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