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What Is A Homicide? What Are The Crimes Where Someone Loses Their Life?

Name: What Is A Homicide? What Are The Crimes Where Someone Loses Their Life?
Uploaded: 2024-01-13T11:13:04Z
Channel: Andrew Dósa
Description: What is a homicide, legally? Just a death—not a crime, explains Oakland attorney Andrew Dósa. A fatal accident where you did nothing wrong isn't prosecuted. But add alcohol, and the presumption of impaired driving can expose you to manslaughter or even murder, since the intent to drink and drive is imputed to the act. He considers that presumption constitutionally questionable.

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What is a homicide, legally? Just a death—not a crime, explains Oakland attorney Andrew Dósa. A fatal accident where you did nothing wrong isn't prosecuted. But add alcohol, and the presumption of impaired driving can expose you to manslaughter or even murder, since the intent to drink and drive is imputed to the act. He considers that presumption constitutionally questionable.

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Answered by Andrew Dósa · Oakland, CA

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0:30

— why a homicide, legally, is just a death and not a crime

1:14

— how a DUI-related death can be charged all the way up to murder

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What is a homicide, legally?

Just a death, not a crime—a fatal accident where you did nothing wrong isn't prosecuted.

How can a DUI death become murder?

Add alcohol, and the presumption of impaired driving can expose you to manslaughter or even murder, since the intent to drink and drive is imputed to the act—a presumption he considers constitutionally questionable.

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