Criminal Law
Homicide
6 case briefs on homicide in Criminal Law, each with the citation in the book’s form. All Criminal Law briefs
Commonwealth v. Welansky
Commonwealth v. Welansky, 55 N.E.2d 902 (Mass. 1944).
Can a defendant who owes a duty of care to business visitors be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for deaths caused by an intentional failure to provide safe exits in wanton or reckless disregard of their safety, even if the defendant did not personally cause the fire?
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Commonwealth v. Malone
Commonwealth v. Malone, 47 A.2d 445 (Pa. 1946).
Can a defendant be convicted of second-degree murder when he intentionally places a revolver he knows holds a cartridge against another's body and pulls the trigger three times, even though he has no intent to kill and does not expect the gun to fire?
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
People v. Casassa
People v. Casassa, 404 N.E.2d 1310 (N.Y. 1980).
Did Casassa establish the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance, which would reduce murder in the second degree to manslaughter in the first degree?
New York Court of Appeals
Girouard v. State
Girouard v. State, 583 A.2d 718 (Md. 1991).
Are taunting and insulting words alone adequate provocation to mitigate a charge of second degree murder to voluntary manslaughter?
Court of Appeals of Maryland
People v. Hall
People v. Hall, 999 P.2d 207 (Colo. 2000).
Did the People use an authorized procedure to appeal the county court's finding of no probable cause, first to the district court and then to the Colorado Supreme Court?
Colorado Supreme Court
United States v. Fleming
United States v. Fleming, 739 F.2d 945 (4th Cir. 1984).
Can a homicide caused by driving, without any purpose to kill or injure, amount to murder, and did the facts here let a jury find malice aforethought?
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit