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Lawyer Friends: Please tell me CSI was wrong about this

rolandfox wrote a helpful answer to part of my legal question:

Difference between “manslaughter” and “criminally negligent homicide” is the difference between “recklessness” and “criminal negligence”; “reckless person” is aware of substantial and unjustifiable risk and consciously disregards it whereas a “criminally negligent person” is not aware of the risk created but should be and therefore cannot be said to consciously disregard it.

I’m usually loathe to reblog of myself, fearing blindness if nothing else, but this was extremely helpful.

It also makes a lot of sense, given the scenario described on the show: the guy who put up a cement-filled mailbox didn’t foresee that it might lead to someone’s death (as opposed to, say, wiring it with explosives).

I guess I’ve already read intentionality into the word “homicide” but that’s apparently not always the case.

Thanks, Roland!

(If I won the lottery and didn’t have to work for a living, I think I’d really enjoy going to law school, because I find the law fascinating, although not enough to go into debt to go to law school because I think I would find practicing law to be horrible, if for no other reason than my memory is excruciatingly shitty.)