Kager v. Astrue

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• explaining that the Manual for Courts-Martial adopted the federal statutory definition of manslaughter, which is “declaratory of the common law”
• Of course, where death results from sale or transfer of a drug, occurrence of the death is an aggravating circumstance in a prosecution for the sale or transfer.
• “[W]e conclude that a conviction for involuntary manslaughter cannot be sustained solely by evidence that an accused sold someone a drug and that the purchaser later died from an overdose of that drug.”

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