criminal negligence

criminal negligence
criminal negligence see negligence

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

criminal negligence
The failure to use reasonable care to avoid consequences that threaten or harm the safety of the public and that are the foreseeable outcome of acting in a particular manner.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


criminal negligence
The failure to use reasonable care to avoid consequences that threaten or harm the safety of the public and that are the foreseeable outcome of acting in a particular manner.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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