homicide:

• the killing of another person

non-culpable homicide:

• the act of killing a person justified in some way
  • self defense
  • soldier
  • not to blame (culpa = fault or blame in latin)

negligence homicide:

• actions were a result of willful blindness or negligence
  • leaving a child in a hot car

culpable homicide:

• murder
• manslaughter
• infanticide

degrees:

• first-degree
  • planned and intentional
• second-degree
  • the killing of another, without explicit intent
  • no plan, but you knew you'd cause harm
  • extreme indifference to human life (could also be a result of

emotions)

• didn't really mean to kill
• conscious disregard for life
• you should've known better (drunk driving, showing off gun, walking aggressive dogs)
• third-degree
  • no intent, but still killed someone
  • manslaughter
    • involuntary
      • unintentional killing of someone from negligence or reckless behavior
      • disregard of human life --> electrical fire and death
    • constructive
      • killing someone during the commission of a small crime
      • reckless driving --> death of another
    • voluntary:
      • person being killed even though the one charged didn't intend to kill someone
  • depraved-heart murder (minnesota: abortion)

notes:

• manslaughter vs. negligence homicide
  • manslaughter = recklessness
  • negligence = fatal mistake
• transferred intent:
  • person a intending to kill person b, but accidentally killing bystander person c (it's still murder)
• felony murder
  • intent to commit a felony crime, but in the process killed someone
• capital murder
  • > death penalty ??