The phrase "a degree reckless" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a sense of recklessness, but it lacks proper grammatical structure.
Example: "His actions were a degree reckless, leading to serious consequences."
Alternatives: "somewhat reckless" or "a bit reckless."
Assistant District Attorney Marc Fliedner read out the charges: manslaughter in the second degree, criminally negligent homicide, assault in the second degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree, and two counts of official misconduct.
Ms. Hatras was arrested on Wednesday and charged with first-degree sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree reckless endangerment.
Prosecutors defended their decision to pursue nothing more than abuse charges against Mr. Hemphill, saying that under Wisconsin law, they could not win a conviction for second-degree reckless homicide, or some even more serious homicide charge, without proving that he had been aware that his actions could create a substantial risk.
Mr. Capece pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of second-degree reckless endangerment: conduct that creates a "substantial risk of serious physical injury".
The matron, Ms. Hockaday, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was called in to the 25th Precinct station house in East Harlem and charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of seven years.
Mr. Izzo pleaded guilty to a felony charge of first-degree reckless endangerment, which under the penal law is a crime committed with "reckless indifference to human life" that produces a "grave risk of death".
But a few months later, as she applied for a secretarial job with an office-supply company, her conviction for first-degree reckless homicide popped up in a background check.
The defendant, Dominique Heaggan-Brown, a Milwaukee officer for three years until he was fired last fall, had been charged in December with first-degree reckless homicide, a crime that could have meant as many as 60 years in prison.
With just strong evidence of speeding, "you could have brought charges in the past for recklessness and let the jury decide" whether the driver was guilty of second-degree reckless manslaughter, a more serious crime, said Maureen McCormick, the chief vehicular-crimes prosecutor in Nassau County.
Both were charged with criminal attempts to commit sales of narcotics in a school zone, and Apuzzo was slapped with first-degree reckless endangerment and interfering with an officer.
