Second degree murder is basically a charge where you intended harm but you weren’t intending to kill but you just didn’t care in the moment.
It’s probably going to be some variant of involuntary manslaughter. That’s far more provable.
“Second degree murder is basically a charge where you intended harm but you weren’t intending to kill but you just didn’t care in the moment.”
NOPE!
If you kick me in the chest, I’m going to consider that more than sufficient evidence that you intended me harm.
Involuntary manslaughter would be a miscarriage of justice. But if it’s a rich family, it probably won’t be prosecuted at all.
I am interested in the school - is it a high end boarding school, or a residential program for ‘troubled teens’ - that’s going to have more impact on how this gets handled than the facts of the case will. Interesting that it’s already being positioned as an ‘accident’. My guess it that there will be a financial settlement with the decedent’s estate, and the whole matter will disappear.