State v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Because the crime of cruelty to juveniles is the predicate felony offense for the manslaughter charge, and because the State was attempting to prove that the defendant's actions or inactions toward her child were either intentional or criminally negligent, the trial judge should have fully informed the jury of the elements of the predicate crime by defining the standard of criminal negligence as set forth in LSA-R.S. 14:12. Because the judge failed to charge the jury concerning this standard, it is conceivable that the jury applied some lesser degree of negligence in determining that the defendant had committed cruelty to a juvenile and that the child's death had resulted during her perpetration of this predicate offense. Accordingly, we conclude that this incomplete charge tainted the jury's verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 703 So. 2d 653 - State v. Corley

2. “[a] full definition of this predicate offense, including the standard of criminal negligence, was an essential element of the offense in this case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 703 So. 2d 653 - State v. Corley