And apart from the STUPID FUCKING DECISION to bury his first manslaughter victim, Ronald's unfortunate situation, and eventual descent into madness, is pretty believable.
A19 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 LArguesArguEx-Officercer Was Drunk but Not Culpable Joseph Gray's lawyer, delivering his closing statement, said his client, who was off duty at the time his van ran down three people in Brooklyn last year, was guilty of drunken driving but not manslaughter because the victims had darted into his path.
White was acquitted of the first degree murder charge on May 21 , 1979 but found guilty of voluntary manslaughter of both victims, and he was sentenced to serve seven and two-thirds years.
In court a murder charge is likely to be reduced to manslaughter if the victim was gay and the defendant claims provocation, as happened with the killer of an Anglican priest stabbed in his vicarage in 2006.Some Jamaican gays say the police are becoming more helpful.
Or that he was the victim of manslaughter or reckless endangerment.
"It should have been murder, not manslaughter," said Rebecca Glover, the victim's aunt, as she left court.
Two men convicted of assault in the beating of a Stamford teenager can also be prosecuted on manslaughter charges after the victim died, the State Supreme Court ruled unanimously yesterday.
And, this week, he/she was arrested for manslaughter after one of his/her victims died.
Before Mr. Mauskopf's news conference, Richard J. Smith, 55, the ship's pilot, who was alone at the controls at the time of the accident, pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn to 11 counts of seaman's manslaughter, one for each crash victim, as well as to lying in a medical report he filed with the Coast Guard to renew his pilot's license in 2000.
