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Manslaughter is probably as stiff a charge as he could get under the circumstances -- which would be much better overall than 1st degree murder.
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Manslaughter is probably as stiff a charge as he could get under the circumstances -- which would be much better overall than 1st degree murder.
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How could I shoot someone with a gun and never be convicted but the person that sold it to me ends up in jail for Manslaughter from the deaths I caused?
Terrorist Walks Free Man, Canada Should Be Ashamed « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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How could I shoot someone with a gun and never be convicted but the person that sold it to me ends up in jail for Manslaughter from the deaths I caused?
Terrorist Walks Free Man, Canada Should Be Ashamed « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Manslaughter is used (car accidents, hunting accidents, etc.) for killing a person when there was no intent to even harm.
Sound Politics: Car Thief-Cop Killer Had 20 Convictions 2006
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Manslaughter is like an angry strike of retaliatory, unanticipated lightning.
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Manslaughter is what’s called a predicate-based offence, i.e. if you commit an offence (say assault) which creates an objective risk of bodily harm and the victim dies as a result of that offence, then you are guilty of manslaughter.
Impossible Consent 2008
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Manslaughter, which is the meaning of the one, is the same as man's laughter, which is the end of the other.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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Manslaughter, which is the meaning of the one, is the same as man's laughter, which is the end of the other.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Manslaughter, which is the meaning of the one, is the same as man's laughter, which is the end of the other.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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