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manslaughter

/man-slaw-ter/US // ˈmænˌslɔ tər //UK // (ˈmænˌslɔːtə) //

误杀,误杀罪,误杀案,谋杀

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
    • : the killing of a human being by another; homicide.

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Examples

  • Facing more than $30 billion in potential liabilities, the company sought bankruptcy protection last January and just emerged from Chapter 11—after pleading guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter—this summer.

  • Burley served seven years in prison after the 2010 drug-planting incident and also was convicted of manslaughter in state court, while Matthews served more than two years in prison.

  • Prosecutors said they were investigating charging the hackers with negligent manslaughter.

  • The Park Police officers involved have since been charged with manslaughter.

  • He was charged with attempted manslaughter, but the charge got reduced to aggravated battery.

  • After four years, two trials, an adoption, and multiple jury scandals, polo mogul John Goodman was found guilty of manslaughter.

  • Mitchell was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to 10 to 20 years.

  • And so, in the end, he accepts a plea bargain: involuntary manslaughter, three years in prison.

  • They employ an individual that not only has a serious drug problem; he was convicted of vehicular manslaughter.

  • White had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible sentence for his crime.

  • After they've done a wood-cutting job they come down and blow the money in; and this man ended up with manslaughter.

  • If they have wherewithal to persuade the Jury to bring it in Manslaughter, what are they the worse for it?

  • Ve got Tom Vildspark off that 'ere manslaughter, with a alleybi, ven all the big vigs to a man said as nothing couldn't save him.

  • His ticket was taken from him and he barely escaped being tried by an American court for manslaughter.

  • The last class may rise to a high degree of enormity, such as manslaughter, but these crimes are rarely possible of restraint.