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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in the case of Commonwealth v. Hardy that failure to strap\u00a0<\/span>a child in properly to a car seat appropriate to the child’s age did not constitute involuntary manslaughter or reckless endangerment of a child, reversing the defendant\u2019s conviction on those counts. \u00a0<\/span>One of the children that died in the accident was in the middle seat with an adult seat belt on, but not seat belted in as he should have under the law for his age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What type of proof is necessary to convict someone of involuntary manslaughter?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SJC emphasized that the crime of involuntary manslaughter requires the following elements of proof:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in the case of Commonwealth v. Hardy that failure to strap\u00a0a child in properly to a car seat appropriate to the child’s age did not constitute involuntary manslaughter or reckless endangerment of a child, reversing the defendant\u2019s conviction on those counts. \u00a0One of the children that died in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-massachusetts-court-decisions"],"yoast_head":"\nMassachusetts SJC finds in Commonwealth v. 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