Opinion ID: 891695
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Heading: Involuntary Manslaughter in New Mexico

Text: {11} Under New Mexico law, involuntary manslaughter is an unintentional killing, State v. Henley, 2010-NMSC-039, ¶ 14, 148 N.M. 359, 237 P.3d 103, that consists of an unlawful killing of a human being without malice ... committed in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony, or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawful manner or without due caution and circumspection. Section 30-2-3. We have interpreted this statutory scheme to encompass unintentional killings that result due to 1) the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony [that causes death]; 2) the commission of a lawful act that might produce death, in an unlawful manner; or 3) the commission of a lawful act that might produce death without due caution and circumspection. Henley, 2010-NMSC-039, ¶ 14, 148 N.M. 359, 237 P.3d 103 (internal quotation marks and citations omitted).