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NORFOLK | The death of a dock foreman killed by a falling light pole at Norfolk International Terminals was "a tragic incident" but not the result of criminal negligence, the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office has decided.
David B. Weiland, 43, died Dec. 22 when a machine used to move shipping containers struck a 105-foot light pole that fell on and crushed his car. He worked out of his 1998 Honda Civic at the terminal, doing paperwork in between directing the placement of container deliveries, his family said.
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The failure to use reasonable care to avoid consequences that threaten or harm the safety of the public and that are the foreseea...
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The FBI agent who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001 testified Monday he spent almost four weeks trying to warn U.S. officials about the radical Islamic student pilot but "criminal negligence" by superiors in Washington thwarted a chance to stop the 9/11 attacks.
FBI agent Harry Samit, of Minneapolis, originally testified as a government witness, on March 9, but his daylong cross-examination by defense attorney Edward MacMahon was the strongest moment so far for the court- appointed lawyers defending Moussaoui. The 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent is the only person charged in this country in connection with al-Qaida's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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In a recent decision of the Court of Quebec, Mr. Pasquale Scrocca, a landscape contractor, was found guilty of criminal negligence causing death of on...
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(This article was originally published in The Daily Record, Kansas City, Mo., another Dolan Media publication.)
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, said there was sufficient evidence to show a mother put her son in harm's way when she left him in her minivan on a summer day while she gambled.
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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said there was sufficient evidence to show a mother put her son in harms way when she left him in her mini-van on a summer day while she gambled.
On Aug. 15, 2003, when temperatures had reached 94 degrees by 4 p.m., Stacy Todd drove her 9-year-old son to the Isle of Capri Casino. She covered up the front passenger windows with clothing and placed a sun shade in front of the windshield.
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An inquest jury ruled Wednesday that no criminal negligence was committed in connection with the death of an inmate found hanging in a janitor's closet at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility.
The finding followed testimony and presentation of evidence that included a timeline showing that guards waited seven minutes to cut down Russell Lee Murray, 41, after finding him in the closet with a sheet suspended from a pipe and tied around his neck.
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - Authorities looking for the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction launched a criminal investigation Monday, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence as the cause.
If everything went right, we wouldn't all be here right now," Middletown Mayor Sebastian Guiliano said. "There's a point where negligence raises to the level of criminal conduct, and that's what we're investigating.
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People v. Cabrera, 3 No. 61, New York State Court of Appeals, opinion by Justice Read:
Does the operation of a motor vehicle at a speed of 15-17 miles per hour over the limit on a twisting road resulting in an accident and the death of several passengers constitute criminally negligent homicide?