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In yet another case testing the murky limits of both parents' rights and a patient's right to die, Gregory Messenger-the Michigan father charged with manslaughter for having unhooked his severely ill, premature baby from a respirator-was acquitted by a jury. Messenger said he was forced to act...
In yet another case testing the murky limits of parents' rights and a patient's right to die, Gregory Messenger--the Michigan father charged with manslaughter for having unhooked his severely ill, premature baby from a respirator--was acquitted by a jury. Messenger said he was forced to act after...
The very same prosecutor who won the case against Jacobs attested to the credibility of his new testimony seven months later. The second jury was sufficiently convinced and sentenced Hogan to ten years imprisonment on charges of involuntary-manslaughter. But Jacobs lingered on death row. And now, nearly a decade...
According to Sullivan, the cause helped establish many legal precedents. It also was important to the development of "effective definitions of 'reasonable doubt,' 'alibi,' 'murder,' and 'manslaughter,'" Sullivan wrote.
A Louisiana judge awarded more than $650,000 to the parents of a Japanese teenager who was shot to death by a Baton Rouge homeowner as the youth was asking directions to a Halloween party. "I felt the intelligence and reasoning of America in the judgment," said the dead boy...