• bioemerl@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Misleading as hell titles for this running around. I thought she was just driving fast based on what I saw in the headlines last week. She totally deserves the murder charges.

    • Melonpoly@lemmy.world
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      I mean, causing a crash and killing someone in the process of speeding is still deserving of a murder sentence.

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        I believe stateside it’s called ‘manslaughter’ in a case such as that. Manslaughter is “the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder.” So no, it wouldn’t be deserving of a murder sentence… Edit: Unless the jury or judge deemed it so, of course.

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          To make matters even more confusing it all depends on state. Most have manslaughter and for a couple it would be 3rd degree murder.

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        There are judges in North Dakota, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Texas that would say “well, were they protesting or something?”

        Food for thought.