Court Opinion

ID: 9661016
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:26:21.964909+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:10:29.831244
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McCown, J.,
dissenting.
I dissent. The degree of negligence or culpability *602which, is sufficient to convict an individual on a charge of motor vehicle homicide is difficult to define. “Obviously, it is not any slight breach of duty but rather a gross failure to do what is required of one.” Delay v. Brainard, 182 Neb. 509 at page 514, 156 N. W. 2d 14.
The clear thrust of the majority opinion is that any' unlawful operation of a motor vehicle is sufficient to convict the operator of motor vehicle homicide if the death of an individual results from it. This has not been and should not be the law. The conduct of the defendant here did not establish a reckless or careless disregard of, or indifference to, the rights and lives of other persons. He did fail to see and hear an approaching emergency vehicle which had the right-of-way. While this was a failure to yield the right-of-way, it was not motor vehicle homicide.
Boslaugh and Smith, JJ., concur in this dissent.