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The Difference Between Murder and Manslaughter

By Ron Chapman

           Florida law defines the crime of second-degree murder as "the unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual."             Manslaughter, on the other hand, is defined as "the killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, without lawful justification . . . and in cases in which such killing shall not be excusable homicide or murder."             In the case of James Poole versus the State of Florida, Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on February 14, 2011 (boomark / email).