No there doesn’t need to be intent. Ever hear of negligent homicide? Manslaughter? Neither has intent, unless something worse gets pleaded down somehow.
She screwed the pooch big time. Shot first, asked questions later, may have tried to cover it up. She’s guilty as far as I am concerned.
Exactly and I agree. Plus, 10 years is a light sentence for taking another persons life.
Her idiot attorneys let her testify that she intended to kill Jean. So there you go. Murder, not manslaughter.