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Criminal Law: Instructions – Involuntary Manslaughter – Reckless Conduct
State v. Coffman (MLW No. 64179/Case No. ED97325 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.)
Criminal Law: Double Jeopardy – Involuntary Manslaughter – Mental State
State v. Neal (MLW No. 63482/Case No. SD31057 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)
Criminal Law: Involuntary Manslaughter – Sufficiency Of Evidence – ACA
State v. Whiteley (MLW No. 59733/Case No. SD29179 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Bates, J.) Where a defendant was convicted of second-degree involuntary manslaughter after the shooting death of his girlfriend as he taught her gun safety, jurors reasonably could have assumed that the defendant was negligent based on his actions […]
Criminal Law: Involuntary Manslaughter – Criminal Negligence – Evidence
Where the state showed that a defendant in an involuntary manslaughter case drove on the wrong side of the road and was intoxicated, the evidence was sufficient to show that the defendant was criminally negligent to support the conviction, and the defendant was not prejudiced by the prosecutor’s improper questions about a blood test because […]
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