Just an FYI regarding "involuntary manslaughter." This is the legal term for when you do something that isn't illegal, and it causes someone else's death. A charge must be filed when that happens, and that charge is "involuntary manslaughter." It means you're not guilty of any actual crime, but your actions directly resulted in someone else being dead..
That's what the driver of the car was charged with, when my friend and I ran into them on my moped one day. We were going down the wrong way on a one-way street into a major intersection, and didn't stop. Jimi flipped over the car and died four days later. I was in the hospital for two weeks.
It was CLEARLY Jimi's fault, he was driving the moped. But back then in Massachusetts where this happened, there was no registration/licensing/insuring for mopeds, they were still considered pedestrian vehicles - motorized bicycles. Since it was the impact with the car that caused Jimi's death, the driver of the car got charged with involuntary manslaughter. It's a technicality, a place-holder for the records.
Charges were brought, charges were dropped, no trial, no judgment. It just had to be on file. Involuntary manslaughter is the common charge for these kinds of situations.
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