Commonwealth v. Keasley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that jury may find gross negligence where defendant’s failure to perform legal duty is likely to have “a fatal or a very serious” result
• breach of duty that will likely result in death or “very serious” harm may support finding of gross negligence
• “When the injury likely to ensue from failure to do that which ought to be done is a fatal or a very serious one, what otherwise would be a lack of ordinary care may be found to be gross negligence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).