Involuntary Manslaughter

• What's Wrong with Involuntary Manslaughter?

Efforts to explain when and why the state can legitimately impose retributive punishment on an actor who inadvertently creates an unjustified risk of causing death (and death results) typically rely on one of two theories. The prior-choice theory claims that retributive punishment for inadvertent lethal risk creation is justified if and only if the actor's inadvertence or ignorance was a but-for and proximate result of a prior culpable choice. The hypothetical-choice theory claims that retributive punishment for inadvertent lethal risk creation is justified if and only if the actor would have chosen to take the risk if he had been aware of it, even though he was not in fact aware of it. I argue that neither of these theories satisfactorily identifies when and why retributive punishment ...

• Texas Law Review
• Vol. 85 Nbr. 2, December 2006

• ; Brian Laprairie Pleaded Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter.

XENIA -- A Fairborn man who pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend's 2-yearold daughter may see his sentence cut by more than half, a court ruled Friday. Brian LaPrairie, 25, was sentenced in 2009 to 22 years for involuntary manslaughter, felony child endangering, having weapons while under disability and trafficking in marijuana.

• Dayton Daily News
• May 10, 2011

• 2 Ex-Contractors Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter

NORFOLK, Va. - Two former Blackwater contractors were found guilty on Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the May 2009 shooting death of an unarmed Afghan civilian in Kabul, but were acquitted of all other charges related to the shootings of two others. A federal jury found Justin H. Cannon, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff, of Virginia Beach, not guilty of murder and weapons charges that could have resulted in life sentences. They also were acquitted in the death of a second unarmed civilian who was killed and of assaulting a third person injured during the shooting at a dark intersection near the scene of an accident.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• March 12, 2011

• Man Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter in Infant Death

A former shipyard electrician was convicted Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter for the shaking death of his 10-month-old daughter. The decision means Woodrow Wilson Haynes III, 25, will escape a murder conviction that could have sent him to prison for up to 40 years.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• July 23, 2004

• State v. Mills, (Ohio 2011)

Aiding & abetting felony murder & involuntary manslaughter

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Man Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter

After five days of wrenching testimony and evidence, a jury returned a verdict Friday afternoon in Samuel Hale's murder trial, finding him guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Jurors in Salem Circuit Court recommended a three-year sentence. The maximum penalty on that charge is 10 years.

• Roanoke Times & World News
• October 31, 2010

• Blackwater Contractors Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter

By Tim McGlone | The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• March 12, 2011

• Wiggins Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in Shooting of Rialto Swat Officer

FONTANA - A jury found Krist Antonio Wiggins guilty Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the 2007 shooting death of a Rialto SWAT officer during a warrant search at Wiggins' apartment. Jurors found Wiggins guilty of involuntary manslaughter - not the first-degree murder charges that prosecutors aggressively sought - in the death of 29-year-old Sergio Carrera Jr.

• The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
• November 23, 2010

• Teen Pleads Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter, Gets Probation

CHESAPEAKE A youth has been sentenced to a year of supervised probation after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2010 shooting death of a 16-year-old boy in Chesapeake.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• September 19, 2011

• Former Army Contractor Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter and Assault After Collision in Kuwait Kills One Sailor and Seriously Injures Another

WASHINGTON, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former U.S. Army contractor was arrested today in Newport News, Va., for allegedly killing one sailor and seriously injuring another in a vehicular collision in Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and Brigadier General Colleen McGuire, Provost General of the Army and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Morgan Hanks, 25, of Newport News, was arrested on charges contained in a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on July 13, 2010, and unsealed today in the Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment charges Hanks with one count of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Br...

• U.S. Newswire
• July 27, 2010