"When they didn't take that notice, they accepted what I would call culpable negligence".
Prosecutors could not say which of the three teenagers in the drug-related gunfight fired the fatal bullet but called all three culpable for the killing, and all were convicted of second-degree murder.
St. Eve of Federal District Court said Mr. Black's sentence should be closer to that of Mr. Radler, calling them "equally culpable".
In calling out those culpable for numbing the conscience, the Pope holds responsible, among others, an omnipresent media that encourages us to "eliminate relationships at a whim," shields us from the direct pain of others, and creates a "deep and melancholic dissatisfaction with interpersonal relations".
At first he ceased writing plays, publishing instead a controversial pamphlet, "Common Sense About the War," which called Great Britain and its allies equally culpable with the Germans and argued for negotiation and peace.
Despite his sporting achievements, he was just one more ordinary South African man whose "negligence", as the judge called it when she found him guilty of culpable homicide, resulted in Steenkamp's agonising death.
Manslaughter, in England and Wales, is broadly similar to culpable homicide in Scotland, and arson is called wilful fire raising.
In his opinion in the case of the former Army contractors, Sullivan called the Justice Department's deal with GM "a shocking example of potentially culpable individuals not being criminally charged".
Reeva Steenkamp's friends and family wept as Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide today as the long-awaited verdict fell far short of what they called justice.
Labour's Graham Stringer called on the prime minister to immediately sack NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson for "wilful and culpable ignorance" over 1,000 deaths at Stafford Hospital.
