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I’ll leave it to Steel to give what this sets overall, but this is completely ****** for an industry that already was. Based on what I have read she clearly wasn’t negligent.
Oh she was clearly negligent. But negligence is failure to use reasonable care under the circumstances, akin to an accident. Crimes usually require an intent to commit the harm or commit the act with knowledge of the high likelihood of harm, like shooting a gun in a crowded room. Accidents are not crimes.
Homicide is the killing of one human being by another. Manslaughter is homicide without malice (i.e., the intent to harm), but an action with indifference to the high likelihood of harm. Here, the only wrongdoing was selecting the wrong medicine, which is negligence but definitely an action lacking any intent to harm or with an apparent and obvious high probability of harm.