Seems like negligent homicide would fit these cirumstances better. Not every citizen is familiar with the three common sense rules of trigger discipline mentioned throughout this discussion, but every driver has to know that speeding and running a stoplight while texting is practically begging for a fatality.
Seems like negligent homicide would fit these cirumstances better. Not every citizen is familiar with the three common sense rules of trigger discipline mentioned throughout this discussion, but every driver has to know that speeding and running a stoplight while texting is practically begging for a fatality.
B. Involuntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony, or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawful manner or without due caution and circumspection.
Whoever commits involuntary manslaughter is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
From the NM code... "Without due caution and circumspection" seems to fit the case
Alec Baldwin was familiar with the rules of trigger discipline. He discussed them in the police interview just after the shooting. He was taught them in training for this and every other film he's worked on with a gun on the set.
Seems like negligent homicide would fit these cirumstances better. Not every citizen is familiar with the three common sense rules of trigger discipline mentioned throughout this discussion, but every driver has to know that speeding and running a stoplight while texting is practically begging for a fatality.
B. Involuntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony, or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawful manner or without due caution and circumspection.
Whoever commits involuntary manslaughter is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
From the NM code... "Without due caution and circumspection" seems to fit the case
Alec Baldwin was familiar with the rules of trigger discipline. He discussed them in the police interview just after the shooting. He was taught them in training for this and every other film he's worked on with a gun on the set.