Manslaughter Law
 
State of Louisiana v. Gardell Hayes

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murde.

Cardell Hayes killed former Saints defensive end Will Smith and attempted manslaughter his alleged role in shooting and injuring Smith's wife, Racquel Smith, in the same incident.

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United States of America v. Rydon Clyde Teton

Pocatello , Idaho Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant charged with voluntary manslaughter.



Rydon Clyde Teton, 38, who is a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, and a resident of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced to 253 months in federal prison for the shooting death of

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State of New Mexico v. Alec Baldwin

Santa Fe, New Mexico criminal defense lawyers are representing Defendant, Alex Baldwin, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchinson on the movies set of "Rust" in 2021.

Defendant has or will plead not guilty.

Baldwin has consistently said that the did not know the gun was loaded and that he did not put the trigger on the revolver.

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United States of America v. Bethany Thomas

Jackson, Mississippi Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant a Jackson Bogue Chitto Woman Sentence for Voluntary Manslaughter



Southern District of Mississippi



A Bogue Chitto woman was sentenced to 67 months in prison for voluntary manslaughter in

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United States of America v. Joseph Thompson

Pierre, South Dakota Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Voluntary Manslaughter



Joseph Thompson, Sr., age 32, a Lower Brule, South Dakota, was accused of voluntary manslaughter.

Thompson was indicted by a federal grand jury in May of 2023 and was convicted in July of 2023

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United States of America v. David Scott McCullough

Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

Two men tried to force their way into David
McCullough’s residence. McCullough fought back with a handgun, killing one of the men and
prompting the other man to flee. But McCullough then left his residence and shot and killed the
second man. After McCullough plea

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State of Oregon v. Jesse Lee Johnson

Salem, Oregon defendant Jesse Johnson was accused of killing Harriet Thompson on March 21, 1998.
Thompson's body was found by her landlord in her apartment.

Harriet Thompson, who was stabbed to death in her home on or about March 20, 1998. (The uncertainty relates to whether the victim was killed before or after midnight on March 19.) The victim's body was found on the living room f

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United States of America v. Shiheem Amos

On September 26, 2018, police officers Hugo Lemos
and Nicholas Mastroianni were working the overnight shift as
patrol officers in southwest Philadelphia. At about 2:00 a.m.,
they received a radio call for a person screaming at the intersection of 65th Street and Dicks Avenue outside Eddie’s Café
and a man assaulting a woman on the highway. The officers
were nearby and

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Monet Carter-Mixon, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Manuel Ellis, et al. v. City of Tacoma, et al.

Tacoma, Washington personal injury wrongful death lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories claiming that Tacoma Police Officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Masyth Ford used excessive force when they attempted to arrest him in 2021.

The Complaint:

Plaintiffs, MONET CARTER-MIXON as Personal Representative of the ESTAT

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Commonwealth of Maryland v. Michael Owen, Jr.

Upper Marlboro, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defendant with murder and other charges.

Officer Michael Owens, Jr. was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, voluntary manslaughter and misconduct in office for shooting and killing William Green, age 43, who was setting handcuffed in the front seat of Owen's police car in 2020.

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State of Vermont v. Stacey Vaillancourt

Rutland, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manslaughter.

The State of Vermont accused Stacy Vaillancourt with manslaughter as a result of the death of a 6-month-old Harper Rose Briar at her child care business in Rutland. The cause of death was said to be an overdose of a sedative.

Defendant pled not guilty and denied that she was the person

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United States of America v. Shilo Aaron Oldrock

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter relating to the deaths of two victims, E.B and P.S., on August 14, 2023.

On the night of January 29, 2021, Shilo Aaron Oldrock, age 30, an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, and the victims were drinking and Oldrock was using methamphetamine.

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State of Florida v. Tamara "Tammy" Sytch

DeLand, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with DUI manslaughter.

Tammy Sytch, age 50, a former WWI star, was charged with driving drunk and killing a 75-year-old man.

She was arrested in May 2022, just four months after she was released from an eight-month stint in prison for a previous DUI.

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State of Michigan v. Eric Compton

Mt. Clemens, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with vehicular manslaughter.

Eric Compton, age 42, got drunk and drove through a stop sign causing the death of the driver of the car he hit..

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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Johnetta Carr

Louisville, Kentucky defendant convicted of manslaughter, imprisoned and exonerated.

In 2005, Planes Michael Adolphe was found murdered in front of his apartment building. Adolphe and Carr had been dating at the time. Carr, who was sixteen, was arrested for Adolphe's murder. She was indicted and entered an Alford plea in 2008 to second degree manslaughter, conspiracy to commit robbery, co

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State of Michigan v. James and Jennifer Crumbley

Troy, Michigan criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with involuntary manslaughter for given their son a firearm that he used to shoot and kill students at Oxford school in 2021.

According to court records, the psychiatrist had written in her notes that Ethan Crumbley told her he didn't ask his parents for a therapist. This is different from what the therapist wrote

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State of Colorado v. Nathan Woodyard

Longmont, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manslaughter.

Nathan Woodyward, age 30, was accused of manslaughter as a result of the death of Elijah McClain, , a young Black man who died after police placed him in a chokehold during an arrest and medics injected him with a sedative, in 2019.

Paramedics administered keamine to McClain during t

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State of Illinois v. Christopher Abernathy

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with rape, robbery, and murder.

Christopher Abernathy, age 18, was accused for raping, robbing and murdering Kristina Hickey, age 15, on October 3, 1984.

An informant told investigators that Abernathy has told him that he killed the victim.

Abernathy, who was classified as learning disabled, was

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North Carolina v. Molly Martens Corbett and Thomas Martens

Lexington, North Carolina criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with murder.

¶ 1 In the early morning hours of 2 August 2015, a Davidson County 911 operator received a call regarding an incident at 160 Panther Creek Court. The caller, Thomas Martens (Tom), reported that his son-in-law, Jason Corbett (Jason), "got in a fight" with his daughter, Molly Martens Corbett

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State of Colorado v. Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt

Brighton, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and third-party assault.

This case arose out of the death of Elijah McClain, a young African American man who, it is undisputed, was not violating any laws when he was walking alone and was approached by Aurora Police officers on August 24, 2019. After being confro

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State of Oklahoma v. Sirrah Mathews

Tulsa, OK criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with;

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: HM2, MANSLAUGHTER - FIRST DEGREE - AUTOMOBILE, in violation of 21 O.S. 711
Date of Offense: 09/15/2022
MATHEWS, SIRRAH RACHELL
Disposed: CONVICTION, 10/10/2023. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: MANSLAUGHTER - FIRST DEGREE - AUTOMOBILE(HM2)
Violation of 21 O.S. 711

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United States of America v. Vantejren Atene

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manslaughter while within Indian Country in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1112 and 1153.

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United States of America v. Jessica Black Cloud

Aberdeen, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Jessica Black Cloud, age 24, was indicted for Involuntary Manslaughter by a federal grand jury in August of 2022. She pleaded guilty on June 20, 2023.

On April 19, 2022, Black Cloud was driving a vehicle in Corson County within the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and

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United States of America v. Bailey Warren Sparkman

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.

Bailey Warren Sparkman, age 23, a Cherokee nation citizen, pleaded guilty shooting and killing his uncle.

Bailey admitted that although the uncle had recently been kicked out of the house, he had a room and belongings there. Bailey was unaware that his uncle

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United States of America v. Jeffrey Carl Cunningham

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual assault abuse of a minor under the age of 12 in Indian Country in violation of 18 USC 1151, 1153, and 2241(c).

18 U.S.C. 1151 provides:

Except as otherwise provided in sections 1154 and 1156 of this title, the term “Indian country”, as used in this chapter, means (a) all land wit

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