culpable negligence


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Noun1.culpable negligence - (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
negligence, nonperformance, carelessness, neglect - failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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culpable negligence

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While we appeal to the Federal Government to reach out to the P and ID management to find ways of resolving the crisis without crippling the economy, everyone whose culpable negligence brought the nation to this strait should be made to face the music.
Then earlier this month prosecutors withdrew manslaughter and attempted murder charges, and Ilidzides instead admitted the far less serious charges of causing death through reckless driving without deceit, and culpable negligence, injuring Mr Pritchard and abandoning the scene.
Ilidzides admitted earlier in the month to causing death through reckless driving without deceit, and culpable negligence, injuring Birch's friend, 32, and abandoning the scene, after prosecutors withdrew manslaughter and attempted murder charges.
Broward State Attorney Mike Satz said in a statement that 56-year-old Scot Peterson faces child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury charges that carry a combined potential maximum prison sentence of nearly 100 years.
Barker had pleaded guilty to culpable negligence manslaughter.
Sentencing her to six months in prison, after finding her guilty of culpable negligence, he said: "We gave you 12 months to pay - PS250 has been paid.
Sentencing her to six months in prison after finding her guilty of culpable negligence, he said: "We gave you 12 months to pay - [pounds sterling]250 has been paid.
The shooting drew condemnation in Minnesota and Australia, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called it "shocking" and "inexplicable." Then-Minneapolis police chief Jamee Harteau resigned after city officials said procedures had been violated and Damond "didn't have to die." The third-degree murder charge accused Noor of committing an "eminently dangerous act" and showing a "depraved mind," and the second-degree manslaughter charge cited "culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk," the records showed.
There is no crime of attempted manslaughter by culpable negligence. See Taylor v.
It was concluded that no individual acted with culpable negligence l d h and that it was an accumulation of minor divergences from strictly correct procedures which culminated in the tragedy."
Murder includes acts that "evince a wanton disregard of human life" and manslaughter includes unlawfully killing a human being "by culpable negligence".
It may be reasonable to argue that it should be a crime to commit "any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life," (177) even though no one is actually killed; after all, "culpable negligence" is itself a crime, even though it is also an element of culpable-negligence manslaughter.