BANGOR - Jurors found Nathaneal Nightingale guilty of manslaughter, not murder, in the death of Michael Miller Sr. of Webster Plantation, but found him guilty of intentional or knowing murder for the death of Miller's wife, Valerie Miller. The jury of six men and six women deliberated Tuesday for five hours at the Penobscot Judicial Center before announcing their split verdict after hearing testimony every day last week. The verdictwas delivered about an hour after jurors finished hearing Nightingale's taped confession to police for a second time.
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 ...
BANGOR Perley Goodrich Jr. was found guilty of manslaughter on Tuesday but escaped a murder conviction in the shooting death of his father. Goodrich also was found guilty of aggravated assault in the beating of this mother. The jury, which consisted of eight women and four men, returned the verdict at 4:37 p.m. The same jurors are scheduled to return to the courtroom on Wednesday for the second phase of the trial, when they will decide whether Goodrich Jr. should be held not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. Their decision will mean the difference between a prison sentence and committal to the states mental hospital in Augusta.
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's doctor was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star. The verdict against Dr. Conrad Murray marked the latest chapter in one of pop culture's most shocking tragedies - the death of the King of Pop on the eve of the singer's heavily promoted comeback concerts.
CHINO - A man convicted of vehicular manslaughter in connection with a fatal traffic accident was sentenced Monday to a year in jail. Sentencing for Daniel Briones Rosas of Pomona came after family members of the man killed, Ruben Carlos Vasquez of Menifee, described their grief over Vasquez's loss.
A jury will resume its deliberations today in the aggravated manslaughter retrial of Paterson residents Damian Free, Justin Scott and Herbert Mays, accused of stabbing to death 22-year-old Ramod Gilchrist in 2003. The state has argued that the three savagely attacked Gilchrist because Free was jealous of Gilchrist's dating Zwwiyya Moore, his former girlfriend and mother of his two children. The state says that Free and his cousins, Mays and Scott, cornered Gilchrist while he was at the Alexander Hamilton housing complex to pick up Moore on Oct. 4, 2003.
ROCKLAND The Knox County grand jury indicted a 29-year-old man for manslaughter Thursday. Another 50 indictments also were handed up. Brian Boody of Rockland, who was indicted for manslaughter, was the driver of a car that slid off Sennebec Road in Appleton and smashed into a tree last May, according to a police report. A passenger in the vehicle, 24-year-old Morgan Wadsworth of Rockland, was killed in the accident.
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.
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