• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Ah is that why there seemed to be this thing called Vehicular Manslaughter in American TV shows? I don't know if we have that here in Australia but I always wondered why such a thing existed since surely it was just... manslaughter whether a vehicle was involved or not.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      yep! I'm not sure how much it's common knowledge, but I heard it from a lawyer/legal-academic in a non-public forum, so I trust it. It wouldn't be too hard to dig into the history of it though.