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Involuntary Manslaughter

Sep 19, 2012

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.)

Mar 29, 2012

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.)

Oct 8, 2009

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 […]

Feb 16, 2009

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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