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Manslaughter is by definition involuntary, look it up in the dictionary. Doesn't mean you won't go to jail for it, unless the jury lets you go.
by 0xbear 9y ago
Manslaughter is by definition involuntary, look it up in the dictionary. Doesn't mean you won't go to jail for it, unless the jury lets you go.
- icebraining 9y ago18 U.S.C. § 1112: Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. It is of two kinds: (1) Voluntary (2) Involuntary
- olliej 9y agoMy understanding is that (1) is you deliberately did something that killed someone but your intent was not to harm them, say you’re working on a car you mean to scare them by faking dropping the engine on them, but actually do drop the engine, vs (2) you’re working with your friend on a car and drop the engine without knowing that they’re under it. For (2) i believe that other things feed in to it - did you take sufficient caution, did you have reason to know there was someone there, were you following best practice, etc. If you did literally nothing wrong (eg a completely freak accident) I don’t believe manslaughter would apply IANAL though so don’t go dropping engines on people and blame me :)