Can the perpetrator of a crime be found guilty of manslaughter even if the crime was unintentional, accidental or negligent?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Whitt, D075153 (Cal. App. 2019):
the perpetrator of the killing can be found guilty even if the death was unintentional, accidental, or negligent.3 (People v. Cavitt (2004) 33 Cal.4th 187, 197.)
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