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To: PTBAA
A manslaughter charge is warranted.

That's my guess, but reading MN law for involuntary manslaughter, it requires "conscious action": "... consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another..." If she thought she was tazing him, she didn't "consciously" risk his death.

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.205

50 posted on 04/12/2021 4:14:51 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: ETCM

How does “involuntary” fit with “consciously”?


141 posted on 04/12/2021 9:40:58 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: ETCM

I think I read that their manual says not to taze someone operating a vehicle. If that is correct, I imagine it could be said she was being reckless by attempting to go against protocol on that—and then the result that she inadvertently caused was death.


166 posted on 04/15/2021 4:45:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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