Culpable homicide defined as causing death by intentional acts, likely-death injuries, or knowing likeliness, with clarifying examples. Defines culpable homicide as causing death by intending death, intending bodily injury likely to cause death, or knowing the act is likely to cause death; includes illustrations distinguishing intentional/knowing conduct from unintended killings, and three explanations treating accelerated death due to injury as causation, treating inflicted fatal injury as causation despite possible medical prevention, and excluding fetal death in utero while recognising culpability for death of a living child partially born.
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Culpable homicide defined as causing death by intentional acts, likely-death injuries, or knowing likeliness, with clarifying examples.
Defines culpable homicide as causing death by intending death, intending bodily injury likely to cause death, or knowing the act is likely to cause death; includes illustrations distinguishing intentional/knowing conduct from unintended killings, and three explanations treating accelerated death due to injury as causation, treating inflicted fatal injury as causation despite possible medical prevention, and excluding fetal death in utero while recognising culpability for death of a living child partially born.
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