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# \[2] 5 - Involuntary Manslaughter

The unintentional killing of another person as a result of general recklessness without intent to kill another person. 

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**Felony**

**Sentence:** 30 Month(s)\
**Fine:** $3,000
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**Examples:**

**1)** A man steals a bicycle that has been left outside of a store (thus committing the California misdemeanor crime of petty theft. As he is riding away on the bicycle, he strikes a pedestrian who eventually dies of because of her critical injuries due to the traffic accident that had happened.\
**2)** During a fight with her husband, a woman retrieves her gun and waves it at him to threaten him. The gun accidentally fires, killing the husband because of the injuries he'd obtained from the injury.\
**3)** A farm owner forces his workers to pick vegetables in record-breaking heat. One of them, a pregnant woman, collapses and dies of heatstroke.<br>