ALBANY – A defendant who killed another motorist as he was trying to flee from police committed manslaughter, not the crime of depraved indifference murder he was convicted of, the state Court of Appeals determined yesterday in a 4-3 decision.
The Court held that the evidence in Michael E. Prindle’s trial did not jibe with the description of depraved indifference murder given to the jury. In part, jurors were instructed that for that charge the prosecution was required to show conduct that is “so uncaring, so callous, so dangerous and so inhuman as to demonstrate an attitude of total and utter disregard for the life of the person or persons in danger.”
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