State v. Hubka

How courts have described this case

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• concluding the contributory negligence of a homicide victim will not constitute a legal cause allowing a defendant to escape criminal responsibility for homicide
• concluding the contributory negligence of a homicide victim will not constitute a legal cause allowing a defendant to escape criminal responsibility for homicide
• holding failure of children to wear seatbelts was not superceding cause of their deaths as to preclude criminal responsibility on defendant
• finding evidence of defendant’s BAC of 0.054 to be relevant to whether she was “operating while under the influence” of alcohol at the time of the accident for which she was charged with vehicular homicide
• “It is well-established that the definition of ‘proximate cause’ in criminal cases is identical to its definition in civil cases.”
• “[T]he definition of ‘proximate cause’ in criminal cases is identical to its definition in civil cases.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).