At The Cochran Firm, we understand the complexity of
vehicular manslaughter cases, and we know how to defend your rights.
How Our Criminal Defense Lawyers Help
Vehicular manslaughter cases are complicated because they involve auto accidents, which are highly technical and require specialized experience to understand.
Prosecutors do not have to prove that a defendant intended to kill the victim with his vehicle; in fact,
vehicular manslaughter cases usually take as given the idea that the defendant did not have such intent.
Crucially, intent is irrelevant in
a vehicular manslaughter case.
He also represented the families of seven laborers who were killed in the largest
vehicular manslaughter case in Texas history where 10 people were killed after a runaway 18 - wheeler crossed into the oncoming lanes of traffic of Highway 75.
Not exact matches
No sooner had Michael J. Flaherty Jr.'s prosecutors obtained a felony
vehicular manslaughter indictment in a hit - and - run
case that a grand jury initially probed in 2014, than the acting DA's opponents pounced with questions about his personal involvement.
The Senavitis
case ended when his Pennsylvania DUI lawyer got him acquitted on the charge of
vehicular manslaughter.
Regardless of where you stand on the question of whether there should be criminal prosecution in these
cases (you can read my thoughts on this here), any Maryland accident lawyer will tell you that this question is of little consequence to the family's wrongful death lawsuit because there is little difference to the accident
case whether the conviction is for
vehicular manslaughter or for the ticket that this P.G. County police officer did receive in this
case (assuming the ticket is involves something beyond speeding).