I believe Potter will and should be found not guilty. Both of the charges require conscience of action. Both require intent that you are aware that what you are doing will cause death.
So if convicted she will be convicted on unintentional consequences. This would totally eliminate “accidents”. Doctors would be put in jail every day. All car accidents would be cause for imprisoning people.
Sometimes an accident is just an accident. Anyone one who watches the whole video of the stop knows this was an accident from Potter’s behavior. Anyone who actually watched the trial could walk away thinking this was anything other than an accident.
If you haven’t watched the actual trial, don’t bother responding to this post. Knowledge gleaned from any other source is useless.
“Both require intent that you are aware that what you are doing will cause death.”
Second Degree Manslaughter doesn’t.
I’ve watched almost every minute of it, minus the hours and hours and hours of redundant testimony from people who weren’t there
The prosecutor was boring the jury to death pretty much for a week
Here’s what I think is a fair analogy. Let’s say a nurse is supposed to give a patient a dose of medicine X. But in her haste (it’s a hectic time on the floor) the nurse gives the patient a dose of medicine Y instead - even though it clearly says Y (not X) on the label.
Is that nurse guilty of anything criminal?
My difficulty with your proposition about Potter is that you or I would be held to an entirely different standard by people like Potter.