I've watched you argue that on this thread, and it's a compelling argument for any civil case, and I am a person who downright ~loathes~ the state of the civil case in this country. We are too sue-happy when anything bad that happens makes us see $$$$ immediately.
We don't have ~all~ the facts the jury did, but my philosophy is to not jail people as criminals for accidents. I have to make the leap to criminal intent before I want to take up jail space with a man like this.
Same here.
The criminal intent in this case is to deliberately ignore the obvious and imminent risk to life he was placing that woman in. It's like storing your dynamite out on the front lawn overnight, because the basement flooded and the neighborhood kids grabbed it while you were sleeping. It's the magnitude of the ignored consequences that make it criminal. The only defence is mental defect.