Sentences with phrase «of manslaughter»

Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter in killing of immobile Palestinian assailant, Reuters

The aftershocks of that tragedy included a controversial court case in which a judge found four scientists, two engineers, and a former government official guilty of manslaughter for having misleadingly reassured the citizens after a series of earlier tremors; the prosecution argued that residents would have otherwise followed the traditional practice of fleeing houses before a major quake hits.

New York police officer Peter Liang was convicted of manslaughter in February 2016 for shooting Akai Gurley in a stairwell in a public housing project in Brooklyn.

Six Italian scientists and one government official are set to go to trial today in Italy (Sept. 20) on charges of manslaughter for not warning the public aggressively enough of an impending earthquake that killed more than 300 people in 2009.

The former NYPD officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed public housing resident as he entered a darkened stairwell in Brooklyn in 2014 does not pose a threat to the public and should not be sentenced to prison, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, who prosecuted him.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Chautauqua County officials say Thomas Jadlowski, 34, was arraigned Monday on two counts of manslaughter in the second degree and hunting after hours in the death of Rosemary Billquist, 43.

Thomas Radlowski, 34, is accused of manslaughter after Chautauqua County Sheriff's deputies say he fired his gun more than 200 yards on the day before Thanksgiving, at what he thought was a deer.

On Feb. 11, Liang was found guilty of manslaughter after fatally shooting Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn housing project in 2014.

In the first case, R v Cairney, the accused was acquitted of second - degree murder but convicted of the lesser and included offence of manslaughter on the basis of the codified provocation defence in the Code.

Director John Landis was ultimately acquitted of manslaughter charges in that case following a nine - month trial.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — Peter Liang, the rookie NYPD officer found guilty of manslaughter last month for fatally shooting young, unarmed black man Akai Gurley in a dark East New York stairwell in 2014, may never see the inside of a jail cell.

Lance Corporal Hassan Adam has been handed over a seven - year jail term by the general court martial (GCM) of the Nigerian Army after found guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday.

H was 37 with a history of mental illness, and had been convicted of the manslaughter of his wife by strangling.

In South Africa this morning Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of murder; overturning his previous conviction of manslaughter.

He was cleared of manslaughter in his 2006 court martial, however, while six others were fully acquitted.

In a decision issued in October 2016 (Fournier c. R), the Superior Court of Québec established that, in certain circumstances, an accusation of manslaughter by means of an unlawful act under s. 222 (5) a) of the Criminal Code can be based on a breach of provincial health and safety legislation.

A jury last month convicted Liang of manslaughter and official misconduct for killing Akai Gurley in an unlit stairwell of the Pink Houses public housing complex in East New York, Brooklyn.

We tend to be more forgiving in cases of manslaughter, where intentions are innocent but consequences are serious, and to punish an attempted murder, whose intention is bad but the consequences are not serious.»

A Tennessee man is facing charges of manslaughter following a Maine truck accident that resulted in two fatalities in March.

The trial judge rejected the loss of earnings claim after the date of the manslaughter as Gray's claim was closely connected with or inextricably bound up with his own criminal conduct.

Provocation can only be used as a defence where the accused is being tried for murder and the only possible outcome, if the defence is accepted, is a diminishment of the murder charge to the lesser crime of manslaughter.

The rookie officer was found guilty earlier this month of manslaughter by a mostly white jury and now faces up to 15 years in prison.

John Harris White was convicted by a jury trial of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree following a fateful incident on August 9, 2006 in Miller Place, N.Y. in which a young man was killed due to a gunshot fired by Mr. White.

If Superdebthunterbot has the ability to self - educate, learn, and modify itself independently of humans, can it be found guilty of manslaughter if someone dies as a result of its actions?

It was argued that a verdict of manslaughter would be appropriate because Gerald acted unlawfully by carelessly using a firearm.

Certainly, Cairney could have been acquitted of murder — not having the subjective foresight of death — and yet convicted of manslaughter as he had the objective foreseeability of bodily harm, all without consideration of the provocation defence.

Traffic rules and regulations include the bounds of speeding, driving under the influence, and the worst of manslaughter due to accident.

Kenneth C. Edelin, M.D., is convicted by a Boston jury of the manslaughter of an anonymous emerging life born to an unknown, unwed black teen - ager — a 24 - week fetus.

From the start, the case of Peter Liang, a former Brooklyn police officer convicted in February of manslaughter for the shooting of Akai Gurley in a housing project stairwell, has seen its share of twists and turns.

ROME — Enzo Boschi, the president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will face trial on charges of manslaughter with six other scientists and technicians for failing to alert the residents of L'Aquila ahead of the devastating earthquake that struck the central Italian town on 6 April 2009, killing 308 people.

Such loss and grief comes while many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are still reeling at the decision of a Western Australian court last week to acquit a man of manslaughter over the death of Kalgoorie teenager Elijah Doughty.

Leave it to CNN — representing the mainstream anti-change media — to paint a picture of an evil Romney, who probably committed some sort of manslaughter during his youth.

Pistorius initially received a five - year sentence for culpable homicide, South Africa's equivalent of manslaughter, for shooting Steenkamp through a locked toilet door in his Pretoria home.

A new inquest into the deaths increases the chances of convictions that were suggested by the recent announcement by the Crown Prosecution Service, who are looking into the possibility of manslaughter, perjury and misconduct in public office offences.

Hemmings pleaded guilty to one county of manslaughter in the first degree, a felony and one count of arson in the second degree, also a -LSB-...]

The Chautauqua County District Attorney's Office says Keith Robbins, 37, will also be on supervised release for five years after prison, for his plea of manslaughter in the first degree.

Having manipulated the truth, Mike is all too trusting when he visits Chris Longo in jail, becoming convinced that the accused killer may be innocent — perhaps covering for the real killer or maybe guilty at most of manslaughter.

Based on the popular racing video game series from Electronic Arts, Need for Speed stars Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul as a guy wrongfully accused of manslaughter trying to redeem himself in a winner takes all race in California.

A deserter accused of manslaughter figures into the plot.

That Yanez was acquitted of manslaughter just a week before autoportrait debuted deepens the mournful quality of the work.

In considering the merits of this manslaughter trial, also consider reading a post from The Lede blog following the quake in which an Italian official, warning of poor enforcement of building standards, said this:

He sought damages for the consequences of the manslaughter.

The claimant conceded that, if the claim for loss of earnings was based on the fact of his detention, that would fall foul of the ex turpi rule, since it would involve relying upon his detention as a result of the manslaughter conviction.

The evidence against Stanley was so significant, and the evidence for this having been an accident that occurred despite his proper handling of the firearm so weak, the decision to acquit of manslaughter seems on its face unreasonable.

The trial judge acquitted Ms. Natewayes of manslaughter but convicted her of break... [more]

Other three co-perpetrators previously convicted of murder in separate trials, accused convicted only of manslaughter; Sentence; armed robbery

Dr Hadiza Bawa - Garba was convicted of manslaughter based partly on evidence from her own self - appraisal.