by Coda » Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:42 pm
Guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Reading what I have about the case, in my personal opinion that's probably the right verdict to have passed. In short, he was enabling a drug addict. He THOUGHT he was doing a good thing, but he was doing it in all the wrong ways, and a man died as a result. I believe there was no malicious intent, just... well, I was going to say "bad judgment" but that's too polite, so let's say "blatant stupidity." He had plenty of chances to do things right, and when things went wrong he panicked and tried to cover his mistake when he could have saved a life by admitting what he did wrong up front. So yeah, definitely guilty, but "involuntary manslaughter" definitely sounds like the right charge.