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Colorado Statute CRS 42-4-1401: Reckless Driving [5] (1) A person who drives a motor vehicle, bicycle, electrical assisted bicycle, or low-power scooter in such a manner as to indicate either a wanton or a willful disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving. A person convicted of reckless driving of a bicycle ...
v. t. e. In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a " depraved indifference" to human life and where such acts result in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill. In a depraved-heart murder, defendants commit an act even ...
(In the United States, there may sometimes be a slightly different interpretation for willful blindness.) The degree of culpability is determined by applying a reasonable-person standard. Criminal negligence becomes "gross" when the failure to foresee involves a "wanton disregard for human life" (see the definitions of corporate manslaughter ...
The court cited precedents from across the country in setting a standard of "willful and wanton disregard," pointing to decisions by courts and legislatures in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois and ...
On Wednesday, a 14-year-old boy shot and killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. On Thursday night, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that ...
The legal standard also was similar: Prosecutors had to prove that the defendants "willfully disregard[ed] the results to others that might follow from an act or failure to act."
Recklessness (law) In criminal law and in the law of tort, recklessness may be defined as the state of mind where a person deliberately and unjustifiably pursues a course of action while consciously disregarding any risks flowing from such action. [a] Recklessness is less culpable than malice, but is more blameworthy than carelessness.
Gross negligence is the "lack of slight diligence or care" or "a conscious, voluntary act or omission in reckless disregard of a legal duty and of the consequences to another party." [1] In some jurisdictions a person injured as a result of gross negligence may be able to recover punitive damages from the person who caused the injury or loss.