Criminal homicide is murder, manslaughter or negligent homicide. Such recklessness and indifference are presumed if the actor is engaged or is an accomplice in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit robbery, rape or deviate sexual intercourse by force or threat of force, arson, burglary, kidnapping or felonious escape. Murder is a felony of the first degree punishable by any term of years up to life imprisonment in state's prison. The reasonableness of such explanation or excuse shall be determined from the viewpoint of a person in the actor's situation under the circumstances as he believes them to be. Manslaughter is a felony of the second degree, punishable by any term of years up to 20 years in state's prison.
Criminal homicide constitutes negligent homicide when it is committed negligently.
Negligent homicide is a felony of the third degree punishable by any term of years up to 10 in state's prison. John Briles, Ralph McTavish, and Gloria Garza are second semester third year law students at Delphinia Law Schools in the State of Apollo. They were bitter about their first two years of law school because the faculty at Delphinia gave low grades and the tuition was too high. They felt the grading scale put them at a disadvantage with students from other schools in competing for jobs. John was a computer whiz who never took ethics in college.