Reply to post: Re: Unwise decision?

Teen girl who texted boyfriend to kill himself guilty of manslaughter

BillG
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Re: Unwise decision?

@Alan Johnson wrote: Logically how can it be involuntary manslaughter? The evidence was that her actions and the outcome were entirely volumtary, preplanned and what she intended.

I agree here. Involuntary manslaughter is when someone is killed WITHOUT "malice aforethought", She had the deliberate intention of killing him.

This wasn't an accident, she VOLUNTARILY killed him. IMO she should have been charged with Voluntary Manslaughter because she deliberately caused his death.

OTOH, maybe the prosecution was concerned that it was easier to get a conviction this way.

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