Intending to kill someone, then carrying out that plan is not the same as negligence.
You don't need intent. If you drive drunk with 200 km/hour in an area where there are several schools, it's hardly an excuse that you did not "intend" to kill a kid. You took the risk that you would.
I don't know the English legal term, but the thing's there.
Holy shit, Tony. At best it is criminal negligence. As in, it could have been reasonably foreseen that she'd come to serious harm.
Intending to kill someone, then carrying out that plan is not the same as negligence. Not even in California.
You don't need intent. If you drive drunk with 200 km/hour in an area where there are several schools, it's hardly an excuse that you did not "intend" to kill a kid. You took the risk that you would.
I don't know the English legal term, but the thing's there.