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609.2xx MANSLAUGHTER
CCJLE
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Law
Undergraduate 1
02/19/2010

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Term
1st Degree Manslaughter (609.20)
15; $30,000
Definition
Whoever intentionally causes the death of another person in the heat of passion provoked by such words or acts of another as would provoke a person of ordinary self-control under like circumstances, provided that the crying of a child does not constitute provocation is guity of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
1st Degree Manslaughter (609.20)
15; $30,000
Definition
Whoever violates section 609.224 and causes the death of another or causes the death of another in committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor offense with such force and violence that death of or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable, and murder in the first or second degree was not committed thereby is guilty of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
1st Degree Manslaughter (609.20)
15; $30,000
Definition
Whoever intentionally causes the death of another person because the actor is coerced by threats made by someone other than the actor's coconspirator and which cause the actor reasonably to believe that the act performed by the actor is the only means of preventing imminent death to the actor or another is guity of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
1st Degree Manslaughter (609.20)
15; $30,000
Definition
Whoever proximately causes the death of another, without intent to cause death by, directly or indirectly, unlawfully selling, giving away, bartering, delivering, exchanging, distributing, or administering a controlled substance classified in schedule III, IV, or V is guity of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
1st Degree Manslaughter (609.20)
15; $30,000
Definition
Whoever causes the death of another in committing or attempting to commit a violation of section 609.377 (malicious punishment of a child), and murder in the first, second, or third degree is not committed thereby is guity of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
2nd Degree Manslaughter (609.205)
10; $20,000
Definition
A person who causes the death of another by the person's culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another is guilty of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
2nd Degree Manslaughter (609.205)
10; $20,000
Definition
A person who causes the death of another by shooting another with a firearm or other dangerous weapon as a result of negligently believing the other to be a deer or other animal is guilty of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
2nd Degree Manslaughter (609.205)
10; $20,000
Definition
A person who causes the death of another by setting a spring gun, pit fall, deadfall, snare, or other like dangerous weapon or device is guilty of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
2nd Degree Manslaughter (609.205)
10; $20,000
Definition
A person who causes the death of another by negligently or intentionally permitting any animal, known by the person to have vicious propensities or to have caused great or substantial bodily harm in the past, to run uncontrolled off the owner's premises, or negligently failing to keep it properly confined is guilty of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
Term
2nd Degree Manslaughter (609.205)
10; $20,000
Definition
A person who causes the death of another by committing or attempting to commit a violation of section 609.378 (neglect or endangerment of a child), and murder in the first, second, or third degree is not committed thereby is guilty of __.

Penalty of not more than __ years or a fine of not more than $_____, or both.
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