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State v. Shepard

Citations

  • 973 A.2d 318
  • 158 N.H. 743

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that defendant’s conduct of straying briefly over the yellow line before hitting motorcyclists was insufficient to impose criminal liability
  • explaining that a defendant’s act of crossing a double yellow line was not caused by, inter alia, alcohol consumption
  • reversing negligent homicide conviction based on defendant’s inexplicably crossing centerline for two seconds resulting in death of three motorcyclists
  • “Criminal negligence requires not only the failure to perceive a more than ordinary risk, but also some serious blameworthiness in the conduct that caused it.” (quotation omitted)

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Judges: Dalianis, Duggan, Hicks, Broderick

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