What is with all the vengeful anger on FR against this guy? He did a reckless, stupid thing and it killed his coworker. It's not like he's running around the streets with a sawed-off defibrillator looking for his next victim.
http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/a-z/manslaughter_involuntary.html
If vehicular homicides resulting from DUIs are charged as involuntary manslaughter -- which they typically are -- then this case clearly should be as well.
I think it reflects a growing consensus that there is something gone very wrong in the justice system.
I see it as: He intentionally put paddle(s) on her and pulled the trigger. Not that he accidentally put the paddle(s) on her and pulled the trigger. Involuntary manslaughter would be that he somehow got the paddles on her by accident and slipped and pulled the trigger. Of course, I am not an attorney. ;-)
1. He was a trained EMT, and should have known that defribillators can be deadly to those who don't need them
2. It was actually his second attempt. He tried it a few minutes before, but they saw him and told him to knock it off, it wasn't a toy.