new york. katy. rehema ellis, thank you very much. joining me now is nbc news legal analyst and former manhattan district attorney katherine christian. katherine, it is good to have you here. talk to me about the second degree manslaughter charge. why did the da choose that one? well, many people have said why not murder, why not murder, and i will tell you why. under new york law murder is defined as the intent to kill. so the prosecution would have to prove that the defendant in this case, mr. penny, intended to cause the death of mr. neely, that it was his conscious objective to cause the death. and on the basis of and we have only seen it on the video. in my experience upward 30 years in criminal practice in new york, that was never going to be the charge. manslaughter, which is charged here, the reckless manslaughter requires that the prosecutor prove that the defendant was
Hành vi rùng rợn của Bí thư Đảng ủy xã giết người, đốt xác để trục lợi bảo hiểm - Pháp luật
vietgiaitri.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vietgiaitri.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
protection, who are sportsmen, who want to go hunting with their kids i want to open this up to people in the audience. absolutely. people traveled far. i want you to meet taya kyle. she wrote a memoir of love, life, faith. what do you want to ask the president? i appreciate the time taking to come here and i think your message of hope is something i agree with, and i think it s great and i think that by creating new laws you do give people hope. the thing is that the laws that we create don t stop these horrific things from happening, right and that s a very tough pill to swallow. we want to think we can make a law and people will follow it by the very nature of their crime they are not following it. by the very nature of looking at the people who hurt our loved ones here, i don t know any of them would have been stopped by the background check and yet, i crave that desire for hope, too. part of it we have to recognize that we cannot out law murder because the people who a