State v. Hockenhull

How courts have described this case

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• defining involuntary manslaughter as “an unintentional homicide * * * committed * * * in performance of an unlawful act”
• defining involuntary manslaughter as “an unintentional homicide without malice aforethought, committed either in performance of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony or in the performance of a lawful act with criminal negligence” (emphasis added)
• trial testimony indicated the defendant, charged with first-degree murder, ingested significant amounts of drugs and alcohol and therefore instruction on voluntary manslaughter warranted
• \A defendant's diminished mental capacity reduces the crime of murder to the lesser included crime of voluntary manslaughter.\
• “Under the diminished capacity doctrine, an essential element of the crime of murder is absent when a defendant is so intoxicated as to render him incapable of forming the specific intent to kill.”
• “The plain[-]view doctrine is not applicable unless the items seized are evidence of a crime that came into view of an officer lawfully present on the premises searched.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).