Criminally negligent homicide: Class A misdemeanor
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Commonwealth v. Catalina (1990)
Most recently applied in Kuck v. Danaher (September 2011)
(1969, P.A. 828, S. 59.)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with criminal negligence, he causes the death of another person, except where the defendant caused such death by a motor vehicle.
(b) Criminally negligent homicide is a class A misdemeanor.
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.