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  2. Criminal negligence - Wikipedia

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    Examples of criminally negligent crimes are criminally negligent homicide and negligent endangerment of a child. Usually the punishment for criminal negligence, criminal recklessness, criminal endangerment, willful blindness and other related crimes is imprisonment, unless the criminal is insane (and then in some cases the sentence is ...

  3. Negligent homicide - Wikipedia

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    Negligent homicide is a criminal charge brought against a person who, through criminal negligence, allows another person to die.Other times, an intentional killing may be negotiated down to this lesser charge as a compromised resolution of a murder case, as might occur in the context of the intentional shooting of an unarmed man after a traffic altercation. [1]

  4. Gross negligence - Wikipedia

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    Gross negligence is used as a standard for criminal law, for example, under manslaughter in English law. [4] Under common law, criminal negligence is defined as a gross deviation from a reasonable standard of care. This is a higher standard than ordinary negligence under tort law.

  5. Willful ignorance - Wikipedia

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    Jewell, the court held that proof of willful ignorance satisfied the requirement of knowledge as to criminal possession and importation of drugs. [ 3 ] : 225 In a number of cases in the United States of America, persons transporting packages containing illegal drugs have asserted that they never asked or were never told what the contents of the ...

  6. Manslaughter - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] There are two broad categories of manslaughter: unlawful act, and criminal negligence. Unlawful act is when a person commits a crime that unintentionally results in the death of another person. [35] Criminal negligence is when the homicide was the result of an act that showed wanton or reckless disregard for the lives of ...

  7. Manslaughter (United States law) - Wikipedia

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    As each state has its own statutes, law that cover the same criminal conduct may have different names. For example: New York State defines manslaughter in the first degree as conduct that causes a death with intent to cause serious physical injury, a definition that corresponds to "voluntary manslaughter" in most other states. If the defendant ...

  8. Child Identity Theft Is a Huge Problem. The Solutions Are Simple.

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    Some have even acquired a lifelong criminal record for an offense committed by the thief that stole their identity. ... but by the negligence of the federal government, which is duty-bound to ...

  9. Negligence - Wikipedia

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    Negligence (Lat. negligentia) [1] is a failure to exercise appropriate care expected to be exercised in similar circumstances. [2]Within the scope of tort law, negligence pertains to harm caused by the violation of a duty of care through a negligent act or failure to act.