<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv408335018"><br><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="bodyDrftID" class=""><tbody><tr><td id="drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was just watching Ch 3 News for info on tonite's mtg re how to improve police relations w/ the community. Jennifer Roscoe ended the story by saying that Kiwane Carrington had died after being "shot during a struggle w/ police." Isn't this a re-write?? I don't recall hearing that there was any struggle or that Norbitt was even close to Kiwane when his (Norbitt's) gun "accidentally went off," killing Kiwane.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Shouldn't this be re-investigated as a criminally negligent homicide at the very
least?? </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This excerpted from <span>Wikipedia</span> seems to apply. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The full entry is at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><h3 style="color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; font-size: 17px;
background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Criminally_negligent_manslaughter">Criminally negligent manslaughter</span></h3><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><i>Criminally negligent manslaughter</i> is variously referred to as <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminally_negligent" title="Criminally negligent" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">criminally negligent</a> homicide</i> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none;
background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">United States</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">It occurs where death results from serious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence" title="Criminal negligence" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">negligence</a>, or, in some jurisdictions, serious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recklessness_(criminal)" title="Recklessness (criminal)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image:
none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">recklessness</a>. A high degree of negligence is required to warrant criminal liability. </p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Criminally negligent manslaughter occurs where there is an omission to act when there is a duty to do so, or a failure to perform a duty owed, which leads to a death. The existence of the duty is essential because the law does not impose criminal liability for a failure to act unless a specific duty is owed to the victim. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">It is most common in the case of professionals who are grossly negligent in the course of their employment.</span> An example is where a doctor fails to notice a
patient's oxygen supply has disconnected and the patient dies (R v Adomako). [Or where a policeman fails to put the safety back on his gun after seeing that the subject is unarmed??]</p><h4 style="color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; font-size: 15px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="editsection" style="float: right; margin-left: 5px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manslaughter&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: United States Law" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184);
background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span></h4></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where are the Carrington's lawyers on this???</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> --Jenifer </span> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></table><br>
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