Also how do the degrees work? This is purely to settle a debate over if I was HYPOTHETICALLY killed over some MC loot which would it be.
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Eli 5 : manslaughter when you’re like driving and on your phone and run someone over. Murder when you wait in your car and then run someone over when come out of their house.
One is not intended, the other is planned.
The more planned, the higher the degree, but the degree of planning is a matter for the courts and what evidence they have.
Like if the hypothetical guy wrote a reddit post on how he’s gonna come and kill you and then does, that’s murder. If he just writes I’m gonna go talk to him and get my loot back, but then kills you because you argued and shit got heated and he stabbed you, it can be argued like second degree. If he came and you had an argument and there was just pushing and you fell and hit your head and died, maybe manslaughter.
But the actual charges depend on the prosecutor and the evidence and whether they think they can convince the jury of it. For example if he pushed you and you hit your head and died, they could charge you for murder. Or they could just go for manslaughter.
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