To: texas booster
charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter
No sure I understand why two charges, wouldn’t it be one or the other?
8 posted on
05/08/2018 6:01:52 AM PDT by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: PeterPrinciple
Different crimes, different standards of proof.
Provides for the possibility that a jury may not be convinced that one statute was violated, but the other was.
18 posted on
05/08/2018 6:51:05 AM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: PeterPrinciple
I would imagine it’s both, so the jury could find guilty of 3rd degree, but innocent of 2nd degree.
That was (if I remember correctly) A problem with the San Francisco homeless illegal murdering a young lady in San Fransicko, in that they didn’t apparently account for a lesser charge, so it was all-or-nothing.
35 posted on
05/08/2018 11:21:01 AM PDT by
ro_dreaming
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