• M0oP0o@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly you could do a lot by simply charging people the same as non car related crimes. Like if you or I got pissed/trashed/inebriated and killed a person we would get a totally different outcome if the tool used was a brick or a car.

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      1 year ago

      If you got drunk, tossed a brick into the woods hit someone and accidentally killed a person it would be treated very similar to vehicular manslaughter in most states in the US.

      Your issue is that don’t bump up manslaughter charges to a second degree murder cause car?

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        1 year ago

        Most times (at least around these parts I am) manslaughter hardly ever gets applied. They seem to treat it as an unrelated death. Jim has an “accident” and sadly Sue has passed away. Maybe if the police are feeling frisky we might get an “unsafe operation of a motor vehicle”.